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His runner Distinctly Game did well to win at the track last time after chasing the pace throughout and keeping on dourly at the death.

The five-year-old failed to get his head in front in his first 13 outings but finally laid that ghost to rest when scoring dourly on his first try at a mile-and-ahalf at Kempton.

Llandovery defended dourly but Aberavon's handling let them down as they came desperately close to gaining a fourth try.

Dave Crosse kept the 25-1 shot up to his work and he galloped on dourly to hold the 4-1 favourite Petite Margot by six lengths, with just five of the 11 runners completing the marathon contest.

For years, he dourly defended Carmarthen constituency against Plaid Parliamentary candidates, such as Gwynfor Evans.

"Father was very fond of a joke," she commented dourly.

Moving through the brackish aquarium that is a dourly semi-modernized Taipei--a rain-drenched, leak-springing, backed-up-plumbing perdition where even layers of societal algae and existential murk can never quite efface the city's sterility--they aimlessly swim in circles.

These secondary elevations are animated by the syncopated rhythm of random window openings, perforating the dourly functional surfaces like a computerized punch card.

In his introductory sections he provides some intriguing perspectives on the character of Scotland and its literature, fiercely rejecting the stereotype of the Scot as "tight-fisted, brutish, maudlin, canny, repressed, volatile, alcoholic, dourly religious." Instead he argues that Scottish culture, and more specifically literature, is marked by a democratic humanitarianism and what G.

Dourly partnered by Charles Askegard, Kozlova opened the New York season with the Black Swan Pas de Deux, portraying Odile with a sensibility that called for rim shots on a snare drum.

He was, he said dourly, announcing that he was allowing his name to go forth as part of an effort to solicit funds on his behalf, to explore the possibility ...

Smith, doyen of international law, once dourly observed that a treaty of friendship was the first warning signal of war.

The 13/2 shot, which made his Grade 1 breakthrough at Aintree, asserted at the second last flight and stayed on dourly to hold the persistent challenge of Sams Profile and Davy Russell by a half-length.

Torcedor stayed on dourly for third ahead of the other joint favourite Order Of St George.

However, the outsider responded gamely to his rider's urgings and he kept on dourly to the line to deny his rival by a neck despite drifiting right.