marvel-of-peru

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• She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.

• But relative to centuries past, America is a marvel of domestic tranquility.

• The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.

• Same goes for the comic book character “Captain America,” which Marvel announced in July would be now be portrayed as a black man.

• We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

• You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.

• But Lessard's a overbearin' son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.

• Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.

• The Spanish men-of-war, which were always painted white, had their colour changed to dark grey like the American ships.

• We used to be taught in school that Moses was the meekest man the world has known: and we used to marvel.