Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner used the words lituum alpinum for the first known detailed description of the alphorn in his De raris et admirandis herbis in 1555.

The first string has a short English-language description, namely " ab 32 times ", which consists of 11 characters.

To define the Kolmogorov complexity, we must first specify a description language for strings.

A more in-depth description of arcology's design principles can be found in " The Last Redoubt " from The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.

Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.

The first Book of Samuel begins with a description of the prophet Samuel's birth and of how God called to him as a boy.

However, according to George Sussman, the first obvious medical description of plague in China dates to 1644.

In Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") monk and later archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen Rimbert gives the first known description of Birka.

The first published description of the blue whale comes from Robert Sibbald's Phalainologia Nova ( 1694 ).

The first attempt at a microscopic description of magnetism was by Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising through the Ising model that described magnetic materials as consisting of a periodic lattice of quantum spins that collectively acquired magnetization.

The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model, which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing a metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons.

In 1927, the first mathematically complete quantum description of a simple chemical bond, i. e. that produced by one electron in the hydrogen molecular ion, H < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup >+</ sup >, was derived by the Danish physicist Oyvind Burrau.

On-sight climbing means to attempt a rock climbing route for the first time without inspection or any form of " beta " ( such as route description, watching others climb it, etc.

Realizing that the grammatical structures of Bantu languages are quite different from those of European languages, he was one of the first African linguists of his time to abandon the Euro-centric approach to language description for a more locally grounded one.

* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

A description of how the device could be used as a shift register and as a linear and area imaging devices was described in this first entry.

Although migration of cells was detected from the early days of the development of microscopy ( Leeuwenhoek ), erudite description of chemotaxis was first made by T W. Engelmann ( 1881 ) and W. F.

In 1912, William Mestrezat gave the first accurate description of the chemical composition of the CSF.

In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

" The Council of Europe gives the flag a symbolic description in the following terms ;

Although many modern listeners believe that the premier song about soul-selling at a crossroads is " Cross Road Blues " by Robert Johnson, the song may be a description of standing at a cross roads and trying to " flag a ride " or hitch-hike ; the sense of foreboding coming from the singer's apprehension of finding himself, a young black man in the 1920s deep south, alone after dark and at the mercy of passing motorists.

This flag was a swallow-tailed ( double-tailed ), and the first legal description of the flag was made in a Royal warrant of April 19, 1562, reading " gult udi korssvijs fördeelt påå blott ", which translates to " yellow in the cross over the blue ".

In blazons ( a vexillological description using flag terminology ), the South African flag is described as " per pall fesswise gules, sable and azure, a fesswise pall vert fimbriated argent, Or and argent.

There is a precise description of the Nepalese national flag in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, Article 5, Schedule 1, adopted 9 November 1990.

In the third session of the CIK of the USSR, the description of Soviet flag in the Constitution was changed, and article 71 was edited to be: ' The state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consists of a red or scarlet field, and in the canton a golden sickle and hammer, and a red five-pointed star bordered in gold above them.

His emblem, as given in a description of the flag he raised when claiming Antarctica, is a large golden N on a black field.

File: John Quelch Flag. svg | Although referred to as " John Quelch " flag, in fact it is closer to the description of Pirate flag of John Phillips.

Stops at busy locations may have shelters, seating and possibly electronic passenger information systems ; less busy stops may use a simple pole and flag to mark the location and ' customary stops ' have no specific infrastructure being known by their description.

This flag became known as the flag of the United Tribes of New Zealand and was officially gazetted in New South Wales in August 1835, with a general description not mentioning fimbriation or the number of points on the stars.

The chorus, which is sung before and after the seventh verse, is a description of Honduras ' chief national symbols, the flag and the coat of arms.

One of those accepted was the substitution of the archaic gualda (" weld-colored ") for the plain amarillo ( yellow ) in the description of the flag of Spain.

After description of the Austrian-Hungarian flags used on sea during 19th century on eastern Adriatic, and after a paragraph on national colours ( i. e. Croatian national tricolour based flags ) used as house flags and owner's signals on ships beside the A-H ensign, Isaić writes: " For river navigation the flag hoisting was solved with legislation of 1869 according to which each ship was to hoist its national flag.

USE flags may be set manually, or via user-friendly tools such as ' ufed ' ( USE flag editor ), which lists flags along with their description.

The basic description of the flag, along with the ratio, can be found in Article 23. II of the Constitution of Azerbaijan that was adopted on November 12, 1995:

The first written description of the Montenegrin flag dates from the time of Scepan Mali ( the Imposter ): white, with a red frame and a golden cross on top of the spear.

The earliest known description of the flag as the Standard of Cornwall was written in 1838.

A sole surviving example of a naval flag following this description is kept by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, all others falling victim to the destruction of Commonwealth symbols at the Restoration of Charles II.