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  • She fears being merely an auxiliary of some man's existence, although her autonomy, as symbolized by the bowl, is made problematic by its having been purchased for her by …. a man.†   (source)
  • Since then, he's been putting a lot more emphasis on his auxiliary emergency backup job: freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.†   (source)
  • Adel felt as though, overnight, he had acquired an altogether new auxiliary sense, one that empowered him to perceive things he never had before, things that had stared him in the face for years.†   (source)
  • This is a spare from an auxiliary box.†   (source)
  • One hundred and fifty islanders attended first-aid courses offered by the Red Cross auxiliary.†   (source)
  • Where the body has head, chest, and abdomen, the State has rulers, auxiliaries, and fa-borers (farmers, for example).†   (source)
  • So, by means of a very, very clever spell, we retraced the path of the assassins back through the tunnels and caves and up to a deserted area on the twelfth level of Tronjheim, off the subadjunct auxiliary hall of the southern spoke in the western quadrant, along the …. ah, well, it does not matter.†   (source)
  • Working with the ladies' auxiliary at the hospital was another avenue I pursued to make friends with the other doctors' wives. in another social sphere we became the leading element of the community.†   (source)
  • THE LADIES OF THE CHURCH auxiliary, alerted to my return by the superintendent's wife, swoop down on me within the hour.†   (source)
  • Dex took an auxiliary company off the north watchtower and into the East Branch tunnel.†   (source)
  • Additional fleet auxiliaries sailed from the Baltic Fleet bases and the western Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • People walked along listening to transistor radios because there were stations with auxiliary power and there were men wrapped in headscarves who sold flashlights and candles and there were candles in thousands of apartment windows and people on line for candles outside the five-and-ten and long lines at phone booths on every second corner.†   (source)
  • So Allan worked with the ministry of health on a revolutionary scheme: allowing trained auxiliary midwives to prescribe the Pill.†   (source)
  • Artus had decided that for the time being, the island would serve as an auxiliary to the Silver Throne on Paralon, reasoning that the seat of power was wherever the king wished it to be.†   (source)
  • All the cadets in his squadron were sworn to secrecy and rehearsed in the dead of night on the auxiliary parade-ground.†   (source)
  • Gatlin was full of ladies' auxiliaries, but the DAR was the mother of them all.†   (source)
  • Early that morning I had to do a simple breast lump excision, and if the biopsy was positive, then a mastectomy and auxiliary node dissection.†   (source)
  • Behind the home plate fence was a large concession stand where the Louisville Ladies Auxiliary would sell baked goods to raise money for the local league.†   (source)
  • "Run it," Whitney ordered, and gestured to the auxiliary unit across the room.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to pull you over," interrupted Jason, tugging on the rug, maneuvering Cactus to the right side of the desk, the old man's left hand close enough to reach the auxiliary alarm.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is an auxiliary policewoman, the first in her precinct.†   (source)
  • The boulevard became a major business district, but in order to control traffic some of the auxiliary streets had to be walled off.†   (source)
  • Many of the features common to contemporary Black English are absent from the "slave" tapes, for instance, what linguists call "the invariant be" as in they be working, and the "deleted copula," leaving out the auxiliary verb in they working.†   (source)
  • Sneaking off to Level Nine without so much as an auxiliary?†   (source)
  • Horses, we'll need horses from the auxiliary Guard stable," he whispered.†   (source)
  • At dinner, prisoners and auxiliaries sat at the same tables as troopers and officers.†   (source)
  • The State courts will be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union.†   (source)
  • She was a perfect bridge between Party and most junior auxiliary.†   (source)
  • It would have been unscientific for me to have accepted all the things he told me about wolves without auxiliary proof, but I found that when such proof was obtainable he was invariably right.†   (source)
  • Also, I'm pretty sure they weren't able to take out all our SAC bases, including the auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • She had gone with him to help him sort out some papers in the auxiliary office he maintained at home, and there for the first time she had met the doctor's wife—a buxom dyed blonde named Sylvia, garishly clad in ballooning silk pants like a Turkish belly dancer, who showed Sophie around the house, the first she had entered in America.†   (source)
  • The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know.†   (source)
  • The vacant lots across the road were white with tents and crowded with auxiliary-service trucks and horse-drawn wagons of all kinds-field ambulances, cut off from their divisional staffs, and units of every sort of commissariat and depot, lost and mixed up and trying to sort themselves out.†   (source)
  • There was a touch of fire across the sky, and an instant later the auxiliary rocket landed beyond the camp.†   (source)
  • When he powered back up, only the auxiliary power came on.†   (source)
  • Even with auxiliary fuel tanks, they would be cutting it extremely close.†   (source)
  • "Can't you switch back to the auxiliary control room?"†   (source)
  • Everybody I know runs off two batteries, a main and the other, an auxiliary.†   (source)
  • MAIN POWER GRID NOT ACTIVE/AUXILIARY POWER ONLY The screen was still flashing.†   (source)
  • He was now very close to the auxiliary generator.†   (source)
  • Arnold didn't realize that the auxiliary power was on, and the fences cut out.†   (source)
  • They were running on main power, not auxiliary power.†   (source)
  • Wu said, "Why are you running on auxiliary power?"†   (source)
  • Melekhin, Surzpoi, and Bugayev worked for hours attempting to engage our auxiliary power systems.†   (source)
  • Last year she joined the local auxiliary police out of some misplaced sense of civic duty.†   (source)
  • There she sat with the deacons' wives, officers of the Ladies' Auxiliary, and head usherettes.†   (source)
  • They would join the army reserve or the auxiliary police like her, and protect what was theirs.†   (source)
  • An auxiliary gate had been set up on the floor, facing gate five a nd almost under the balcony.†   (source)
  • He knew that the hospital in San Marco possessed an auxiliary diesel generator.†   (source)
  • "The power needs will be dramatically reduced now that life support is gone, so we'll dump three of the five batteries and the auxiliary power system.†   (source)
  • Girls can't even be in the Young Mafla they have to be in the Girls' Auxiliary and serve macaroons on silver plates.†   (source)
  • Even before Plato's time the Hindu caste system had the same tripartite division between the auxiliary caste (or priest caste), the arrior caste, and the laborer caste.†   (source)
  • Twenty-four men, he wrote in a news article, had been named by Larry Phillips to the civilian defense auxiliary fire force, including George Tachibana, Fred Yasui, and Edward Wakayama.†   (source)
  • Judging by the auxiliary tanks, Louie wrote in his diary, their destination was likely "a long hop somewhere."†   (source)
  • Let us attempt a simple illustration of the relationship between the three parts of man and the state: BODY SOUL VIRTUE STATE head reason wisdom rulers chest will courage auxiliaries abdomen appetite temperance laborers Plato's ideal state is not unlike the old Hindu caste system, in . which each and every person has his or her particular function for the good of the whole.†   (source)
  • Walking out to Super Man, Louie found the bomb bay fitted with two auxiliary fuel tanks and six five-hundred-pound bombs.†   (source)
  • In pursuit of this latter end, the church women's auxiliary had provided Susan Marie and her children with a straight month's worth of hot suppers in casserole dishes, and Einar Pe-tersen had seen to it that groceries were delivered to her kitchen door.†   (source)
  • The following lieutenants of the defense commission were present at yesterday's meeting: Bill Ingraham, communications; Ernest Tingstaad, transportation; Mrs. Thomas McKibben, medical supplies; Mrs. Clarence Wukstich, supplies and food; Jim Milleren, auxiliary police; Einar Petersen, roads and engineering; Larry Phillips, auxiliary fire force; Arthur Chambers, publicity.†   (source)
  • Six of us had to stand on the narrow beam between the bomb bay doors with our arms spread out on each side over the tops of the twin auxiliary fuel tanks.†   (source)
  • When Phil had wrenched the plane out of its dive, the enormous g-forces had nudged the auxiliary fuel tanks out of place, just enough to block the doors.†   (source)
  • It made perfect sense: the auxiliary generator fired up first, and it was used to turn on the main generator, because it took a heavy charge to start the main power generator.†   (source)
  • It means auxiliary power is low.†   (source)
  • Why should auxiliary power be low?†   (source)
  • He thought perhaps it was just a routine status check on the auxiliary power, perhaps a check on the fuel tank levels or the battery charge…… "Henry," Arnold said to Wu.†   (source)
  • …[-AV09] 05:14:44 Control Status Chk Operative — Aux Power [-AV09] 05:14:57 Warning: Fence Status [NB] Operative — Aux Power [-AV09] 09:11:37 Warning: Aux Fuel (20%) Operative — Aux Power [-AVZZ] 09:33:19 Warning: Aux Fuel (10%) Operative — Aux Power [-AVZ1] 09:53:19 Warning: Aux Fuel (1%) Operative — Aux Power [-AVZ2] 09:53:39 Warning: Aux Fuel (0%) Shutdown [-AV0] Wu said, "You shut down at five-thbirteen this morning, and when you started back up, you started with auxiliary power."†   (source)
  • You were attacked by two hoodlums of the Di-di Jing Cha, which can be translated as the Young People's Auxiliary Police.†   (source)
  • "Four Hazels," he answered at once, "and here she is: Hazel Meade, Young Comrades Auxiliary, address Cradle Roll Creche, born 25 December 2063, mass thirty-nine kilos, height—"†   (source)
  • Soon the program was rolled out to three thousand sites around the country, and eventually the auxiliary midwives were authorized to insert IUDs as well.†   (source)
  • Not because my mom hated the Women's Auxiliary or the DAR, but because she hated what Mrs. Lincoln stood for.†   (source)
  • When Yossarian plugged his headset into one of the auxiliary jackboxes, the two gunners in the rear section of the plane were both singing 'La Cucaracha.'†   (source)
  • A second, auxiliary station held a sleek little tele-link, a second laser fax, a hologram send-receive unit, and several other pieces of hardware she didn't recognize.†   (source)
  • AT THREE in the morning, under a sky blazing with shoals of stars, the troopers, their prisoners, and the civilian auxiliaries were awakened by a subdued reveille.†   (source)
  • 'I'm going to tell him,' Clevinger insisted, as the two of them sat high in the reviewing stands looking down on the auxiliary paradeground at Lieutenant Scheisskopf raging back and forth like a beardless Lear.†   (source)
  • The Southern Belle girls were the daughters of the DAR and the Ladies Auxiliary members—the Emily Ashers and the Savannah Snows—and you could take them anywhere, if you could stomach it, stomach them, and stomach the way it looked like you were dancing with a bride at her own wedding.†   (source)
  • Besides that, this time they'll have female auxiliaries, the standard ten per cent-no more rape complaints.†   (source)
  • The next compartment aft contained the heat exchanger/steam generator, turboalternators, and auxiliary equipment.†   (source)
  • The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her up to the front of the church, ahead of the deacons' wives and Ladies' Auxiliary, off of Brewster Place for good.†   (source)
  • She didn't know my mom was the one who had sent the School Superintendent a copy of every ruling against book banning in the U.S. She didn't know my mom cringed every time Mrs. Lincoln invited her to a Women's Auxiliary or DAR meeting.†   (source)
  • It was he who encouraged Lourdes to join the auxiliary police so she'd be ready to fight the Communists when the time came.†   (source)
  • I didn't bother to list the various non-combatant auxiliary corps because, if I wasn't picked for a combat corps, I didn't care whether they used me as an experimental animal or sent me as a laborer in the Terranizing of Venus — either one was a booby prize.†   (source)
  • They poured out of nowhere, for the floor back of the auxiliary gate was bare, hurried like cattle between the two fences, spilled through gate five and were gone.†   (source)
  • And you have forgotten that in peacetime most veterans come from non-combatant auxiliary services and have not been subjected to the full rigors of military discipline; they have merely been harried, overworked, and endangered — yet their votes count.†   (source)
  • He did hear WSMF announcing that it would be on the air only two minutes each hour thereafter, since it was operating on auxiliary power.†   (source)
  • Further, the hospital's auxiliary generator was operated only during the evening hours, for emergency operations, and for a few minutes each hour on the hour to supply power for WSMF.†   (source)
  • Q-ships were usually auxiliary schooners or wornout tramps, targets on which a German submarine captain wouldn't be likely to waste a torpedo but would prefer to sink with gunfire.†   (source)
  • According to Richard, there was talk of requisitioning a school and opening an auxiliary hospital.†   (source)
  • Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" repeated Lieutenant Berg.†   (source)
  • The room had been refurnished for him and Charlotte with silk-shaded reading lamps, bedside fleeces, drapes against the alley view and its barbarity--as in a palazzo against the smell of the canals--a satin cover on the bed, and auxiliary pillows on the roll of the bolster.†   (source)
  • Branching out from this complete and satisfying centre are all the auxiliary channels of his life, such as his heartiness with men, his appreciation of rough humour, his low of good drink and food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer.†   (source)
  • Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • Running this auxiliary hospital, for instance, of which he was in chargethere were now three such hospitals-was no light task.†   (source)
  • Let us suppose that these formalities were taking place at the auxiliary hospital of which Dr. Rieux was in charge.†   (source)
  • On the fourth day the opening of the auxiliary hospital in the premises of a primary school was officially announced.†   (source)
  • The boy was taken to the auxiliary hospital and put in a ward of ten beds which had formerly been a classroom.†   (source)
  • It has its certain negative virtues serving as silent auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • Might, could, would—they are contemptible auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.†   (source)
  • Dix, who had a mill on the stream, was a feeble auxiliary of Old Harry compared with Pivart.†   (source)
  • But when the question is to life, and its materials, and its auxiliaries, how does he profit me?†   (source)
  • As a hobby, auxiliary to his readings in Divinity, he developed his slight skill in church-music and thorough-bass, till he could join in part-singing from notation with some accuracy.†   (source)
  • He is my chief auxiliary!†   (source)
  • She was a notable housewife; her work was always done and well done; she "ran" the Sewing Circle, helped run the Sunday-school, and was the strongest prop of the Church Aid Society and Foreign Missions Auxiliary.†   (source)
  • Afterward they went outside, wandering about among the mazes of buildings in which was done the work auxiliary to this great industry.†   (source)
  • The event converted into irony for a time those spirited strains of Dibdin—as a song-writer no mean auxiliary to the English Government at the European conjuncture—strains celebrating, among other things, the patriotic devotion of the British tar: "And as for my life, 'tis the King's!"†   (source)
  • In a few minutes the investigators went out, and joining those of their auxiliaries who had been left at the door they pursued their way elsewhither.†   (source)
  • On the present occasion neither of these great auxiliaries failed him; but, though his thoughts were exclusively occupied with Mabel, her beauty, her preference of Jasper, her tears, and her departure, he moved in a direct line to the spot where June still remained, which was the grave of her husband.†   (source)
  • Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • And meantime I had an auxiliary interest which had never paled yet, never lost its novelty for me since I had been in Arthur's kingdom: the behavior—born of nice and exact subdivisions of caste—of chance passers-by toward each other.†   (source)
  • I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the state with these dangerous auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • He — probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant — relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, — a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.†   (source)
  • The author has elsewhere said that the character of Leather-Stocking is a creation, rendered probable by such auxiliaries as were necessary to produce that effect.†   (source)
  • I propose that we retire to a discreet distance from this impregnable position, and there hold a convocation, or council, to deliberate on what manner we may sit down regularly before the place; or, perhaps, by postponing the siege to another season, gain the aid of auxiliaries from the inhabited countries, and thus secure the dignity of the laws from any danger of a repulse.†   (source)
  • …like the Bethel of Philadelphia has over eleven hundred members, an edifice seating fifteen hundred persons and valued at one hundred thousand dollars, an annual budget of five thousand dollars, and a government consisting of a pastor with several assisting local preachers, an executive and legislative board, financial boards and tax collectors; general church meetings for making laws; sub-divided groups led by class leaders, a company of militia, and twenty-four auxiliary societies.†   (source)
  • But when the torch glanced upon the lofty crest and golden spurs of the knight, who stood without, the hermit, altering probably his original intentions, repressed the rage of his auxiliaries, and, changing his tone to a sort of churlish courtesy, invited the knight to enter his hut, making excuse for his unwillingness to open his lodge after sunset, by alleging the multitude of robbers and outlaws who were abroad, and who gave no honour to Our Lady or St Dunstan, nor to those holy men…†   (source)
  • Even the great personal strength of such an aid became of moment, in moving the ark, as well as in the species of hand-to-hand conflicts, that were not unfrequent in the woods; and no commander who was hard pressed could feel more joy at hearing of the arrival of reinforcements, than the borderer experienced at being told this important auxiliary was not about to quit him.†   (source)
  • First as a comfort to Fanny, then as an auxiliary, and last as her substitute, she was established at Mansfield, with every appearance of equal permanency.†   (source)
  • My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete.†   (source)
  • He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin.†   (source)
  • May I reckon on you as an auxiliary?†   (source)
  • Toward the southeast, but in immediate contact with the fort, was an entrenched camp, posted on a rocky eminence, that would have been far more eligible for the work itself, in which Hawkeye pointed out the presence of those auxiliary regiments that had so recently left the Hudson in their company.†   (source)
  • Of Miss Lavinia, who acts as a semi-auxiliary bridesmaid, being the first to cry, and of her doing homage (as I take it) to the memory of Pidger, in sobs; of Miss Clarissa applying a smelling-bottle; of Agnes taking care of Dora; of my aunt endeavouring to represent herself as a model of sternness, with tears rolling down her face; of little Dora trembling very much, and making her responses in faint whispers.†   (source)
  • Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels, he was, to a certain off-handed, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own; the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary material.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 56 Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his Nephew in his late Design, hatches a Scheme of Retaliation which Accident suggests to him, and takes into his Counsels a tried Auxiliary The course which these adventures shape out for themselves, and imperatively call upon the historian to observe, now demands that they should revert to the point they attained previously to the commencement of the last chapter, when Ralph Nickleby and Arthur Gride were left together in the house where death…†   (source)
  • "A hopeful auxiliary," said Fitzurse impatiently; "playing the fool in the very moment of utter necessity.†   (source)
  • There are very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred and eighty-five auxiliary chapels.†   (source)
  • As auxiliary to this scarcity of fuel, one of the large springs which abound in that country gushed out of the side of the ascent above, and, after creeping sluggishly along the level land, saturating the mossy covering of the rock with moisture, it swept around the base of the little cone that formed the pinnacle of the mountain, and, entering the canopy of smoke near one of the terminations of the terrace, found its way to the lake, not by dashing from rock to rock, but by the secret…†   (source)
  • "Dark and mysterious monster!" he exclaimed, while with trembling hands he disposed of his auxiliary eyes, and sought his never-failing resource in trouble, the gifted version of the psalms; "I know not your nature nor intents; but if aught you meditate against the person and rights of one of the humblest servants of the temple, listen to the inspired language of the youth of Israel, and repent."†   (source)
  • If, in addition to the effect produced by these quaint auxiliaries to his costume, we add the portentous and troubled gleamings of doubt, which rendered his visage doubly austere, and proclaimed the misgivings of the worthy Obed's mind, as he beheld his personal dignity thus prostrated, and what was of far greater moment in his eyes, himself led forth, as he firmly believed, to be the victim of some heathenish sacrifice, the reader will find no difficulty in giving credit to the…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 57 How Ralph Nickleby's Auxiliary went about his Work, and how he prospered with it It was a dark, wet, gloomy night in autumn, when in an upper room of a mean house situated in an obscure street, or rather court, near Lambeth, there sat, all alone, a one-eyed man grotesquely habited, either for lack of better garments or for purposes of disguise, in a loose greatcoat, with arms half as long again as his own, and a capacity of breadth and length which would have admitted of his…†   (source)
  • He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie.†   (source)
  • …to the constant and unremitting persecution of Sir Mulberry Hawk, who now began to feel his character, even in the estimation of his two dependants, involved in the successful reduction of her pride—that she had no intervals of peace or rest, except at those hours when she could sit in her solitary room, and weep over the trials of the day—all these were consequences naturally flowing from the well-laid plans of Sir Mulberry, and their able execution by the auxiliaries, Pyke and Pluck.†   (source)
  • …to put an end to a situation, which had lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when universal wrath was diffused in the atmosphere, when the city consented to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the improvised fortress which rested on it.†   (source)
  • In conclusion, in mercenaries dastardy is most dangerous; in auxiliaries, valour.†   (source)
  • I say, therefore, that the arms with which a prince defends his state are either his own, or they are mercenaries, auxiliaries, or mixed.†   (source)
  • Sarpedon held command of the allies; he chose for officers Glaukos and Asteropaios, far and away the best men, he thought, of the auxiliaries, after himself, who stood high in the whole army.†   (source)
  • We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment.†   (source)
  • At this, Poulydamas at Hektor's elbow said: "Hektor, and the rest of you, our captains, captains of auxiliaries: we are fools to drive our teams into the moat, so rough it is to get across—the stakes inside like fangs against us-—and then comes the wall.†   (source)
  • And one's own forces are those which are composed either of subjects, citizens, or dependents; all others are mercenaries or auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • The armies of the French have thus become mixed, partly mercenary and partly national, both of which arms together are much better than mercenaries alone or auxiliaries alone, but much inferior to one's own forces.†   (source)
  • This duke entered the Romagna with auxiliaries, taking there only French soldiers, and with them he captured Imola and Forli; but afterwards, such forces not appearing to him reliable, he turned to mercenaries, discerning less danger in them, and enlisted the Orsini and Vitelli; whom presently, on handling and finding them doubtful, unfaithful, and dangerous, he destroyed and turned to his own men.†   (source)
  • Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious, and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE'S OWN Auxiliaries, which are the other useless arm, are employed when a prince is called in with his forces to aid and defend, as was done by Pope Julius in the most recent times; for he, having, in the enterprise against Ferrara, had poor proof of his mercenaries, turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand, King of Spain,(*) for his assistance with men and arms.†   (source)
  • Auxiliaries, which are the other useless arm, are employed when a prince is called in with his forces to aid and defend, as was done by Pope Julius in the most recent times; for he, having, in the enterprise against Ferrara, had poor proof of his mercenaries, turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand, King of Spain,(*) for his assistance with men and arms.†   (source)
  • But his good fortune brought about a third event, so that he did not reap the fruit of his rash choice; because, having his auxiliaries routed at Ravenna, and the Switzers having risen and driven out the conquerors (against all expectation, both his and others), it so came to pass that he did not become prisoner to his enemies, they having fled, nor to his auxiliaries, he having conquered by other arms than theirs.†   (source)
  • [51] Meanwhile, /to have/, ceasing to be an auxiliary, becomes a general verb indicating compulsion.†   (source)
  • White, however, dissented vigorously and devoted 10 pages to explaining the difference between the two auxiliaries.†   (source)
  • …of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of…†   (source)
  • Having degenerated to such forms, it is now employed as a sort of auxiliary to itself, in the subjunctive, as in "if you had /of/ went,"†   (source)
  • "[50] I have encountered some rather astonishing examples of this doubling of the auxiliary: one appears in "I wouldn't had '/a/ went."†   (source)
  • In "I have /got/ the measles" /got/ is historically a sort of auxiliary of /have/, and in colloquial American, as we have seen in the examples just given, the auxiliary has obliterated the verb.†   (source)
  • One has just been discussed: the addition of a degenerated form of /have/ to the preterite of the auxiliary, and its use in place of the auxiliary itself.†   (source)
  • The American seldom says "I /must/ go"; he almost invariably says "I /have/ to go," or "I /have got/ to go," in which last case, as we have seen, /got/ is the auxiliary.†   (source)
  • Sir Edmund Head, governor-general of Canada from 1854 to 1861, wrote a whole book upon the subject: /Shall/ and /Will/, or Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs; London, 1856.†   (source)
  • /To have/, as an auxiliary, probably because of its intimate relationship with the perfect tenses, is under heavy pressure, and [Pg207] promises to disappear from the situations in which it is still used.†   (source)
  • Other characteristic Americanisms (a few of them borrowed by the English) are /red-eye/, /corn-juice/, /eye-opener/, /forty-rod/, /squirrel-whiskey/, /phlegm-cutter/, /moon-shine/, /hard-cider/, /apple-jack/ and /corpse-reviver/, and the auxiliary drinking terms, /speak-easy/, /sample-room/, /blind-pig/, /barrel-house/, /bouncer/, /bung-starter/, /dive/, /doggery/, /schooner/, /shell/, /stick/, /duck/, /straight/, /saloon/, /finger/, /pony/ and /chaser/.†   (source)
  • "The idiomatic use [of the two auxiliaries]," they say, "is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it.†   (source)
  • Half a century ago, impatient of the effort to fasten the English distinction upon American, George P. Marsh attacked it as of "no logical value or significance whatever," and predicted that "at no very distant day this verbal quibble will disappear, and one of the auxiliaries will be employed, with all persons of the nominative, exclusively as the sign of the future, and the other only as an expression of purpose or authority.†   (source)
  • These they plentifully supply with money, though but very sparingly with any auxiliary troops; for they are so tender of their own people that they would not willingly exchange one of them, even with the prince of their enemies' country.†   (source)
  • This strong propensity of the human heart would find powerful auxiliaries in the objects of State regulation.†   (source)
  • Next to these, they are served in their wars with those upon whose account they undertake them, and with the auxiliary troops of their other friends, to whom they join a few of their own people, and send some man of eminent and approved virtue to command in chief.†   (source)
  • At the same time, this advantage ought not to be considered as superseding the use of auxiliary precautions.†   (source)
  • …to them, they take it into their protection; and when they carry a place by storm they never plunder it, but put those only to the sword that oppose the rendering of it up, and make the rest of the garrison slaves, but for the other inhabitants, they do them no hurt; and if any of them had advised a surrender, they give them good rewards out of the estates of those that they condemn, and distribute the rest among their auxiliary troops, but they themselves take no share of the spoil.†   (source)
  • A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.†   (source)
  • Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS; and will be rendered auxiliary to the enforcement of its laws.†   (source)
  • If any prince that engages in war with them is making preparations for invading their country, they prevent him, and make his country the seat of the war; for they do not willingly suffer any war to break in upon their island; and if that should happen, they would only defend themselves by their own people; but would not call for auxiliary troops to their assistance.†   (source)
  • Those matters which in negotiations usually require the most secrecy and the most despatch, are those preparatory and auxiliary measures which are not otherwise important in a national view, than as they tend to facilitate the attainment of the objects of the negotiation.†   (source)
  • The relation in which that clause stands to the other, which declares the general mode of appointing officers of the United States, denotes it to be nothing more than a supplement to the other, for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary method of appointment, in cases to which the general method was inadequate.†   (source)
  • In order to cast an odium upon the power of calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, it has been remarked that there is nowhere any provision in the proposed Constitution for calling out the POSSE COMITATUS, to assist the magistrate in the execution of his duty, whence it has been inferred, that military force was intended to be his only auxiliary.†   (source)
  • It is not easy to conceive a possibility that dangers so formidable can assail the whole Union, as to demand a force considerable enough to place our liberties in the least jeopardy, especially if we take into our view the aid to be derived from the militia, which ought always to be counted upon as a valuable and powerful auxiliary.†   (source)
  • The courts of the latter will of course be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union, and an appeal from them will as naturally lie to that tribunal which is destined to unite and assimilate the principles of national justice and the rules of national decisions.†   (source)
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