She has a younger brother named Booker with a habit of getting into mischief.
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That is a lofty target, especially for a company with a habit of missing them.
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Smithies could not resist "picking up anything" to experiment with, a habit his colleagues noticed.
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The money had belonged to a dead relative with a habit of hiding money around the house.
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Where on this loony Earth is Wolfgang, the reticent Berliner with a habit of shooting up public places?
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A couple of fancy dinners with a habit of lunches out can wreak havoc on a food budget.
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You're more likely to form a new habit when you connect it with a habit you already have.
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I want to hear more from Francine, the French mental patient who tends bar with a habit of oversharing.
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It is a beautiful and wicked par 3, with a habit of interjecting itself into United States Open lore.
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After spending three years with a habit that was slowly destroying his life, rytag's parents booked him into rehab.
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In person, she is friendly and disarming, with a habit of calling minors "kiddos," even in discussion of criminal cases.
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He was laconically charming, with a habit of using my name in every other sentence that made my palms clammy.
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Prior to this investigation, Yediot Ahronot was generally regarded as a dependably independent "moderate" voice, with a habit of criticizing Netanyahu.
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During his tenure, Mr. Bennet has developed a reputation as a studious senator with a habit of mulling decisions for weeks.
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Nor was David Ginola, another big attacking talent with a habit of sucking much of the oxygen out of a room.
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A needle junkie with a habit so fierce she spent days and nights in a self induced coma on her bathroom floor.
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Storytellers with a habit for swinging for the fences paired with some of Hollywood's artisans is a promising setup for future season.
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One was Antonio Russo, a 17-year-old high-school dropout with a habit of carrying guns who lived around the corner.
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It's very annoying that whenever they want to describe a nun in the media, it's always somebody with a habit and veil.
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You have an all out swarmer with a habit for getting clipped on the counter, against a counter puncher who struggles under pressure.
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Methadone can treat this "dope sickness" and stem the needle sharing and overdoses that can be part of being locked up with a habit.
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"Al was a tough kid with a habit of getting into some trouble," Ramsey told Harvey Araton of The New York Times in 2009.
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A creature of habit (with a habit of inventing creatures), Gorey was at least as attracted to the quotidian as he was to the bizarre.
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The risk was positively associated with a habit of swishing and holding acid in the mouth, enhancing the contact surface area and time with the teeth.
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Coming to terms with a habit that nearly killed her, she has found support at the Haven at Drexel, Drexel University's housing for students in recovery.
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Who wouldn't rather have a president with a habit of babbling than one who'd move into the Oval Office and start deconstructing the government's pandemic control team?
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Even for the brazenly confident Mr. Wolff, a status-mad needler with a habit of being ejected from expensive restaurants, this is a new level of notoriety.
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There is little justice sweeter than a woman taking over for a man with a habit of mistreating women, and little that feels quite as fair and fitting.
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He was a prominent lawyer, both secretive and flamboyantly extroverted, a passionate opponent of capital punishment and a family man with a habit of disappearing into dive bars.
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His posture isn't the greatest, but he's not a schlub: he's solid, with a habit of walking with his head down, like a race-car driver looking for his keys.
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Identify trip hazards like wires on the floor or furniture legs that protrude, even pets with a habit of lying on the stairs or in the middle of the floor.
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" Played by actor Carroll O'Connor, Bunker was a gruff, blue collar worker with a habit of making racist and misogynist remarks but who became a popular character dubbed a "lovable bigot.
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Yet 25,000 Facebook fans tune in to watch Reeves—a bubbly, relatable young mother of four, with a habit of dropping F-bombs—do what she does surprisingly well: sell oysters over the internet.
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She's smiley and chipper with a habit of fluffing up her natural curls; she apologizes for squealing and "nerding out" when she learns that Audrey Hepburn and Frank Sinatra used to hang out here.
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Are the poor wasting money on celebrating a birthday or enjoying some small sweetness, asks the administration with a habit for spending historic sums on taxpayer funded private jets, first-class travel, and vacations?
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He's a "counterpuncher," he says, with a habit of insulting anyone remotely critical of him — whether that's journalists, the former Miss Universe candidate he once called "Miss Piggy," or the bereaved father of an American Army captain.
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They knew it when he was mayor — more iconoclast technocrat than conservative crusader — with a habit of scooping up sidewalk trash, calling in potholes and staring up, nodding, at park-dwelling homeless men with grievances to air.
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In June of 2015 Story was booked to fight Erick Silva—another hot prospect with a habit for folding under pressure—but that bout was postponed until August, whereupon Rick Story's career hit the skids outside of the cage.
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For many years there has been a grievance culture on the left, with a habit of turning statistical inferences into allegations of systemic biases, and treating bad personal habits as syndromes or diseases beyond the control of moral discipline.
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One of the Trump administration's first major tests of its confrontational approach to trade will bring Vice President Mike Pence head-to-head with his Japanese counterpart, Taro Aso, the pugnacious deputy prime minister with a habit of speaking his mind.
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The odds of death from lung cancer were more than nine times higher with a habit of even one cigarette a day, while smoking up to 10 cigarettes a day was associated with almost 12 times the risk of death from lung cancer.
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On an all-new episode of VICELAND's HATE THY NEIGHBOR, comedian Jamali Maddix treks to South Carolina for an inside look at a controversial reform program for kids with a habit of getting in trouble, designed to scare them into cleaning up their acts.
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Instead of his first choice for foreign minister, Sherif Ali Hussein, a Sunni scion of the Hashemite monarchy that once ruled Iraq and has close ties to Arab Gulf states, he named Faleh al-Fayyad, an inept Dawa hand with a habit of dozing off in meetings.
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If you've ever wondered why it's so tough to stick with a habit that can help you lead a happier life, such as going to the gym, keeping up with a diet or meeting work deadlines faster, a new personality framework by happiness expert Gretchen Rubin may help.
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Were Donald Trump just a real estate developer turned reality TV star with a habit of getting himself embroiled in lawsuits, news that his get-rich-quick seminar business was being sued in multiple courts for allegedly being a thinly veiled scam wouldn't have been major national news.
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Its stages are selectable from a top-down world map, and in my preview, I get to play two types: A left-to-right dash through an armada of enemies, and a boss encounter with a brilliant blue blob with a habit of swelling up to fill half the screen.
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Thankfully, our heroine has two guides into her brand new world, best friends Diana (Jennifer Bartels), a type-A Working Woman with flawless Lynda Carter-ish waves, and Kathleen (Mena Suvari), an apparent Texas heiress with a habit of choosing the wrong — aka closeted — guys, like Cheyenne Jackson's heavily mustachioed casting director Greg.
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They were the Smothers Brothers, Tom and Dick, and the crash-and-burn story of their show, "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," is worth recalling 50 years on as a case study that may prove newly relevant as a president with a habit of attacking TV shows via Twitter settles into office.
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It may well dawn on some Democrats that nominating a self-described "gaffe machine" with a habit of favorably stretching the truth for the presidency at a moment when the importance of clear and honest communication from the White House has been brought into stark relief may not have been as safe and responsible a choice as they imagined.
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The distinguished roll call of talent includes the stage veteran Eleanor Bron, who purrs her way through the part of a grande dame with a habit of forever misplacing her husband, and Emma Fielding — fondly remembered from the 1993 National Theater premiere of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" — as a drolly expressive house guest who pronounces that there are only four "ideal men" in London. Mrs.
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He was, however, notoriously quick-tempered, with a habit of throwing his wig onto the ground or into the fire when angry; his reputation for duelling earned him the nickname "Fighting Dick Talbot".
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John Bosco records that Dominic spent a lot of time with his friends, encouraging them in their devotions, discouraging those with a habit of swearing,Traditionalcatholic.net: The Life of Dominic Savio: Chapter 10-Zeal for the Salvation of Souls.; Retrieved on 24 November 2006. and teaching Catechism at Sunday School.Bosconet.aust.
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The of the DenLiner is a mysterious man with a habit of speaking in complexes when it comes to the nature of time. Owner enjoys eating various dishes that have a flag placed in the middle of them, aiming to eat his entire meal (usually rice or flan) without knocking the flags over. reprises his role as the Owner.
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Albert Wormenheimer (Stephen Markarian) – A geeky, math-loving student with a habit of picking his nose and talking to his "inner voice" in a dramatic manner. He created the popularity list for Polk in Season 3. He was part of an organization squad to help Ned get organized. He taught him how to empty out clutter in his locker and use a calendar.
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They usually nest on the ground, with a habit of resting and roosting on roads. The subfamilies of nightjars have similar characteristics, including small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. However, typical nightjars have rictal bristles, longer bills, and softer plumage. The colour of their plumage and their unusual perching habits help conceal them during the day.
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In 1731, the convent unanimously adopted the new Rule, together with a habit of red and blue, the traditional colours of Our Lord's own clothes. After she became a nun she assumed the name of "Maria Celeste". Crostarosa left Scala in 1733 and went to Nocera Inferiore. It was in Foggia on 19 March 1738 that she established the Redemptoristine Nuns.
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The tree typically grows to a height of around with a habit that is similar in appearance to Acacia cana or Acacia cambagei. It has glabrous, flexuose, angled branchlets with no stipules. The straight to shallowly recurved pale-green phyllodes have a narrowly linear shape. The phyllodes have a length of and a width of and are narrowed at each end with a prominent midrib and nerves.
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Tsang began his showbusiness career as a stuntman. Due to his popularity, Tsang is often the master of ceremonies (MC) in events organised by the Hong Kong television network TVB, and he was nicknamed "Prize Master" (). He is known for being a short plump guy with a habit of speaking before thinking, often landing himself into hot water. His insults have led to him being assaulted by rumored triads over bad mouthing singer Joey Yung.
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Lemanskiite normally forms with a habit of very large nodules up to five centimeters long; it can also form with veins of quartz. Lemanskiite has two different types of occurrences, needle-shaped and rosette-shaped aggregates. The needle-shaped aggregates are very thin plate-like individual crystals with a length of 0.8mm and have a thickness of 10 μm. The rosette- shaped aggregates are thin, lamellar, subparallel intergrowths with very thin individual domains.
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Retrieved on 11 July 2009. says: :McIlwraith was a big man with big ideas, but his indifferent health did not allow him to successfully carry the full burden of them. He was rugged and masterful, possibly on occasions not over-scrupulous, with a habit of getting his own way by sheer force of character rather than by intellectual ability. For nearly 25 years he was one of the greatest personalities in Queensland.
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Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy) and Susan Turner (Shirley Temple) are sisters who live together. Susan is an intelligent 17-year-old high-school student with a habit of forming short-lived interests after hearing the regular guest lectures at the school. Margaret is a judge, and Susan's guardian. Richard Nugent (Cary Grant), a handsome and sophisticated artist, is a defendant in Margaret's courtroom, charged by ADA Tommy Chamberlain (Rudy Vallee) with starting a nightclub brawl.
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Francis is described as a strange child with a habit of collecting odd objects in his pockets and showing little to no affection for his mother. Cora has formed a friendship with her late husband's doctor, Luke Garrett, whom she calls 'Imp.' He however, has stronger feelings for her, although he does not reveal them until later. Cora is intrigued by the news of the Essex serpent from her friends Charles and Katherine Ambrose and wants to discover more about it.
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Montero was born in Havana, Cuba in 1952. She is the daughter of Manuel Montero, a very successful Cuban comedic writer and actor who made his career in both Cuba and Puerto Rico, where he and his family relocated when Mayra was a young girl. Manuel, whose pen name was "Membrillo", earned his greatest success playing "Ñico Fernández", a comedic character in Puerto Rican television. This character was a Cuban immigrant with a habit of using hyperbole to describe his homeland and all things Cuban.
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Myrie-Williams believes that his strongest attribute is that he "loves running at defenders", as well as being "pretty confident with the ball at his feet" and "not being afraid to take anyone on due to his pace". He also states that he can "spot a good pass", and gets as much enjoyment assisting goals as he does scoring them. He has been described as a "direct winger" with "a habit of drifting out wide". Myrie-Williams often takes set-pieces and has been described as a "dangerous crosser of the ball".
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The of the DenLiner is Hana's serious yet eccentric contractor, with a habit of speaking in complex riddles when it comes to the nature of time. He states that only those with a "Pass" are able to ride the DenLiner and, with it, transcend time itself. Also, as the DenLiner's owner, he cannot stand fighting in his train and any who would dare alter the flow of time. For either category, Owner possesses Passage Denial tickets, which are able to leave unwanted passengers stranded in the middle of time unless they have tickets.
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Jupp played Archie the Inventor in CBeebies' Balamory. He also had a role in the BBC Scotland comedy programme Live Floor Show, where he played an eccentric, foul mouthed comedian. In 2007, Jupp appeared fleetingly in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a television weatherman, who complained about an incredibly hot drought. Jupp appeared in Series 3 and 4 of political comedy The Thick of It as John Duggan, an incompetent press officer with a habit of making inappropriate comments, prompting the remark that his fringe is to "hide the lobotomy scars".
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The J/22's helm is quick and responsive-distinctly dinghy-like. The boat is fitted with the same rudder assembly as the larger J/24, which results in most positive steering, but the helm is not heavy or difficult even in heavy weather. Because the helm is so light, the boat accelerates well and scorches along downwind. On the other hand, with full main and working jib, we did find the boat a little tender going to windward, with a habit of heeling quickly in the puffs.
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Herwig 2009, p88 XVIII Corps was commanded by General Jacques Marie Armand de Mas Latrie. Herwig states that Lanrezac was given "Arthur Poline's XVII Corps", which is not consistent with other accounts and published maps and appears to be an error. XVII Corps was in the Ardennes sector at the time.Clayton 2003, p47 Spears described Lanrezac as “a big flabby man” with a habit of hitching his spectacles behind his ear, whilst Sir John, who disliked him, later described him as “a Staff College pedant” with no practical ability at command in war.
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These birds forage on the ground or in low vegetation, with a habit of noisily rummaging through dry leaves searching for food. During the breeding season (spring and summer) they mainly eat insects, ground dwelling beetles, spiders and other arthropods that reside in the leaf litter that is foraged by the spotted towhee. They only eat protein rich food in the breeding season, and in the fall and winter they focus on foraging for acorns, seeds oats and berries. They will frequent bird feeders if present in their woodland habitat.
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In this story, set in the Spring of 1917, players control Clyde Blackburn, an American pilot and gambler with a habit of deceitful behavior. Early on, Blackburn cheats George Rackham, a pilot of British nobility, in a game of cards and steals the latter's plane. Posing as Rackham, Blackburn introduces himself to Rackham's gunner, Wilson, and the two set off on an aerial exercise. During the exercise, German aircraft ambush the duo, and the two pilots take photographs of a German munitions base they stumble upon after fighting off the enemy fighters.
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With a habit of eating during combat or mid-sentence, he was initially thought dead. However, he had managed to escape and, on his own will, kidnapped Emi Kizaki as revenge after having his imagination being insulted. This prompted Katou himself to dispatch Takurou Sawatari to dispose of Riku, whose antics had become too foolish or psychotic to be tolerated. In the anime, he was the one controlling the US military satellite Helios in outer space, and was killed when Kouichi used Linebarrel's Executor to destroy the massive weapon.
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In her interview with Grace, she revealed that she started off as a singer, where her mother is a music teacher, with a habit of playing classical music in the morning, which influenced her to sing since she was 5 all the way through junior high and high school, until she left home at 17 and went all the way to Daehangno, Seoul, and became a hip-hop dancer and rapper instead, before dropping out of high school, and joined a Canadian college in the hip hop club.
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" Massingberd said that he resolved then "to dedicate myself to chronicling what people were really like through informal anecdote, description and character sketch".cited by McGinness, Mark (2008) "Father of the modern obit: Hugh Massingberd (1946–2007)", The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend Edition, 5–6 January 2008, p. 56 He felt it was possible to give a true assessment of the subject and to present "a sympathetic acceptance, even celebration, of someone's foibles and faults". Massingberd famously referred to the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, a deceased man with a habit of indecent exposure, as "an uncompromisingly direct ladies' man.
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His ambassadorial posting was remarkable for the excess richness and luxury, in comparison to other embassies, and his entry into Paris would mark the excess of his posting. His entourage included a confessor, one equerry, two secretaries, eight "hangers-on", six footmen, four pages, two Swiss guards, five coachmen, five postilions and 24 runners. He had embroidered coats, and entered Paris dressed with a jacket laced with a habit of Christ and buttons in diamonds, along with a large hat. Even his pages were dressed in gold velvet robes, with gold, tissue cuffs, and silver embroidery.
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Gopher is a fictional gray anthropomorphic bucktoothed gopher with a habit of whistling out his sibilant consonants. He is based on the beaver in Lady and the Tramp. He often accidentally falls into one of the many holes he makes in the forest ground by forgetting to watch where he is going. Gopher first appears in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and regularly breaks the fourth wall by pointing out that he is "not in the book", although this simply means that he is 'not in the Phone Book', and the purpose of his statement being to get better business.
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Acting on instinct whenever he thinks national security is at stake, he often breaks rules and ruffles feathers on the job, bringing him into constant contact, and sometimes conflict, with Do-kyung. After being stationed at the airport, he encounters doctor Seo Myung-woo (Moon Jung-hee), his ex-girlfriend who is now working at the airport clinic, with whom he parted on painful terms. Meanwhile, another airport employee is Do-kyung's childhood friend Kang Ha-joon (Lee Jin-wook). Ha-joon is quick-tempered with a habit of talking aggressively due to the nature of his job with airport security, watching over thousands of surveillance cameras.
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While these royal works were going on, Torrigiano visited Florence in order to get skilled assistants. He tried to induce Benvenuto Cellini to come to England to help him, but Cellini refused partly from his dislike to the brutal and swaggering manners of Torrigiano. Cellini wrote, > This man had a splendid person and a most arrogant spirit, with the air of a > great soldier more than a sculptor, especially in regard to his vehement > gestures and his resonant voice, together with a habit he had of knitting > his brows, enough to frighten any man of courage. He kept talking every day > about his gallant feats among those beasts of Englishmen.
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Joey Heric is a fictional, recurring character on The Practice, played by John Larroquette, who won a Primetime Emmy Award for the role in 1998 and was nominated again in 2002. Joey is a wealthy, wisecracking, narcissistic psychopath with a habit of stabbing his gay lovers to death. Despite his psychological problems, he is a brilliant schemer, who delights in and excels at manipulating the legal system for his own benefit. He first appeared as a murder defendant who had hired Bobby Donnell's firm to represent him, while in his second appearance (again as a murder defendant) he chooses to represent himself, with Bobby appointed by the court as second chair.
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A veteran who had been kept out of the England team by Godfrey Evans Parks was a fair batsman, but missed a vital stumping off Peter Burge that cost England a chance of winning the Second Test. In the slips there was Colin Cowdrey, who would take a record 120 Test match catches, M.J.K. Smith was a noted close fielder who rarely missed a chance and Ken Barrington took 58 catches for England. Peter Parfitt was regarded as one of the best first slips in England, but did not play in the Tests. Fred Titmus was a famous chatterbox with a habit of taking catches in mid-conversation, which worried Smith.
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Agnus is the Order of Sparda's chief technology researcher and alchemist in Devil May Cry 4, developing demon-killing weapons for the Knights. An introverted workaholic with a habit of stuttering when stressed, Angus rarely appears outside his office and very few in the cult know about him. It is later learned that he has been experimenting with the broken Yamato and created demon-based weapons like the Angelos, even turning himself into the insect- like Agnus Angelo before being killed by Dante when he attempts to keep him from the Yamato. He is indirectly mentioned with contempt by his surviving daughter Nico in Devil May Cry 5\.
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The next morning, Gottalot and Rudolf traverse the town, as Rudolf learns that Gottalot was given a lot of names by the people he encountered, but when he asks Gottalot if he was a pet cat, he leaves in a huff. Soon after, Rudolf encounters another cat by the name of Buchi with a habit of imitating martial arts moves and yelling "Hyah", who tells Rudolf that Gottalot was known as the Junk Tiger. He also tells Rudolf about a dangerous dog by the name of Devil. As Buchi offers to let Rudolf hang around his house, he explains Gottalot's fight against a Doberman, who threatens to tear his ear off if He returns.
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Raffles described the genus as having an elongated snout, eight to 10 incisors, well-developed limbs, five- toed naked feet, and the sole furnished with projecting pads and sharp claws, with a habit and tail of a squirrel. Marcus Ward Lyon published a revision of the genus in 1913, and also noted the squirrel-like appearance of Tupaia species, which only lack the long black whiskers and have smaller ears. They do not have any markings on the face, the naked area of the nose is finely reticulated, an oblique stripe on the shoulder is more or less distinct, and the tail is haired but not tufted. The braincase is about as wide as the maxillary tooth row is long.
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Breadalbane was at the centre of a vast area of central Scotland, comprising Atholl, Menteith, and Strathearn, which had been controlled by the assassins. Before them, Atholl, Menteith, and Lennox, had been controlled by James I's uncle Robert (and Robert's son, and Robert's son's father-in-law), who had ruled Scotland for 3 decades, while James I was imprisoned, and James' father was too frail; Robert had suppressed attempts to free James, and was suspected of assassinating James' older brother. The establishment of the Campbell presence in the region helped the king remove the danger from such a large central area with a habit of disloyalty. As a largely rural and isolated area, shrieval oversight was provided by the sheriff based at Perth.
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Irving Berlin: A Life in Song Schirmer Books, (1998) He never forgot those childhood years when he "slept under tenement steps, ate scraps, and wore secondhand clothes," and described those years as hard but good. "Every man should have a Lower East Side in his life," he said. He used to visit The Music Box Theater, which he founded and which still stands at 239 West Forty- Fifth St. From 1947 to 1989, Berlin's home in New York City was 17 Beekman Place. George Frazier of Life magazine found Berlin to be "intensely nervous," with a habit of tapping his listener with his index finger to emphasize a point, and continually pressing his hair down in back" and "picking up any stray crumbs left on a table after a meal.
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Devlin began his Sheffield United career working under Steve Thompson, his last manager at Notts County. He made a string of substitute appearances before his full debut on 13 April in a 1–1 draw away to Swindon Town, and scored his first goal in a 3–3 draw at Tranmere Rovers. He was cup-tied for the team's run to the FA Cup semi-final, but started both legs of the play-offs, in which they lost to Sunderland on aggregate after Lionel Perez made a "truly world-class save to thwart Paul Devlin's piledriver from " before recovering to save a follow-up header. Devlin showed himself to be a hard-working player, but with a habit of getting booked, picking up 11 yellow cards in his first season with the club.
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Adrian Sassoon (born February 1961) is an English art dealer, art collector and writer. He was schooled at Eton College, where he was taught ceramics by Gordon Baldwin; he went on to study further at Christie’s School of Design.Debrett’s People of Today, 2015, pp.1273-4. He worked as an assistant curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in the department of decorative arts.Brady, Anna “Hustlers with a habit: what five Tefaf exhibitors collect and why” Theartnewspaper.com, published 8 March 2019, date retrieved 21 November 2019 He is the owner and founder of a gallery that shows contemporary art,“What to see at London’s Collect Art Fair” architecturaldigest.com, published 30 April 2015, date retrieved 21 November 2019.Spence, Rachel (21 September 2018) “Quick silver: the art of Hiroshi Suzuki”.
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An eight-page sample was posted on the Dark Horse Presents MySpace page in June 2008 NYCC Exclusive: Dark Horse Runs Wild with "Solomon Kane", Comic Book Resources, April 20, 2008 and the first issue was published in September 2008.EXCLUSIVE: Solomon Kane #1 Preview, Comic Book Resources, July 10, 2008 The second arc, "Death's Black Riders", was a four-issue mini-series published from January 2010 to June 2010. The third arc, "Red Shadows," had its first issue published in April 2011. "Red Shadows", based on a Robert E. Howard story and previously interpreted by Marvel in Marvel Premiere #33–34 (1976), follows Solomon Kane as he tracks le Loup, an expert French swordsman and womanizer with a habit of killing his conquests, through Europe, across the Mediterranean, and down the West Coast of Africa.
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Theatre historian and author W. J. MacQueen-Pope, who worked with Coyne on The Merry Widow, described him as "a curious-looking fellow, with a round face and a pair of rather sad eyes, loose-limbed and with a habit of kicking out on each side with his feet as he walked. Here was a man who could twist a woman round his finger without effort, but his simple, wistful appeal, and who also would be hail-fellow- well-met with the men; there was the smile and the lurking mischief in the eye, which peep forth from time to time, to prove it. "On the stage Joseph Coyne was unique. Few, very few, men had the mixture of charm, ability and talent which he possessed, and few, very few, ever stormed the hearts of the British Public as did this young American.
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As Qwark tried to give him a wedgie "for old times' sake", Nefarious knocked off the catwalk and fell into the machinery below, which ultimately led to his transformation into a robot. The new Nefarious soon after unleashed a horde of robotic insects on Metropolis to get revenge on Qwark, who confronted and defeated him again, leaving the villain as a disembodied head which Qwark dumps in a trash can. Qwark was subsequently knocked out by Nefarious' butler Lawrence and taken to the former's ice planet lab. Qwark managed to escape while Nefarious began planning his vendetta after he was repaired; however, the repairs left Nefarious with a habit of malfunctioning in times of extreme stress (during which episodes he freezes up and receives random radio signals of a holovision soap opera series, Lance and Janice in his head) until being whacked by Lawrence or any of his allies.
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The series follows the actress as she tries to downplay the fact that she is the daughter of Aaron Spelling (his name is rarely mentioned in series; he is referred to by Tori as "Daddy" and taking a cue from Charlie's Angels is only heard off-camera). Despite the fact that her father is very wealthy, Tori tries to prove that she just wants people to like her for herself and take her seriously. Along with Tori the show features her close friends Pete (James Carpinello), a roommate who shares Tori's condo and has a habit of bringing women to the place every night by bragging about Tori being his roommate; Janey (Brennan Hesser), a real estate agent with a habit for being nosy and ambitious; and Sasan (Zachary Quinto), an openly bisexual (except to his parents) Iranian-American who tends to be critical at times, hoping it will knock a little sense into Tori. She is also seen carrying around her overweight pug Mimi LaRue, who is frequently dressed in tacky designer clothes.
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