Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Ottawa, this Sixth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, and in the first year of Her Majesty's reign . }}
12.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the two-hundred and fortieth.
13.
There were just too many enemy planes, just too many . " Even so, Nishizawa could not wait to return to combat . " I want a fighter under my hands again, " he said . " I simply have to get back into action.
14.
The CIA wanted Powell to say, for example, that Iraq's specifications for roundness were so exacting " that the tubes would be rejected as defective if I rolled one under my hand on this table, because the mere pressure of my hand would deform it ."
15.
"' "'I was asked to write a business like book of reference for District and Administrative Officers, studying brevity and eschewing minute detail . These instructions I have obeyed at the sacrifice of much interesting matter which came under my hand.
16.
This is to Command you in the name of the State to take the Body of the Said Martin Parmer and bring him forthwith before me so as he may be delt with as the Law directs in case of murder wherein fail not as given under my hand this 15th Oct . 1826.
17.
It is clear that Stirling had already selected the name " Perth " for the capital well before the town was proclaimed, as his proclamation of the colony, read in Fremantle on 18 June 1829, ended " given under my hand and Seal at Perth this 18th Day of June 1829 . James Stirling Lieutenant Governor ".
18.
This day Otto Askins personally apeared Before me Samuel Norriss Alcalde of said District and being sworn sayeth that he has Just Cause to Believe Martin Parmer Did Shoot Moton Askins near the house of Daniel Clark on the Angelline and that said Moten Askins Died on the 13th of the same month of said wound as Given under my hand this 15th of October 1826.
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Given under my hand and seal at arms, at the Castle of St Lewis at Quebec, this twenty-fifth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four and in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lord George The Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth.
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It is about death, and, according to Andrew Motion, is the kind of poem for which Larkin " is so often regarded as an unrelievedly pessimistic poet " Its concluding lines, " What is under my hands, / That I cannot feel ? / What loads my hands down ? ", presage the helplessness, the dread of the atrophying of emotion, the despair, and the magnetic terror of death in the poems that follow.
