That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Of few authors is this more true than of Heidenstam.

`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

An assumption of youth, or the presence of a few youthful characteristics, deceives no more successfully than rouge or dyed hair.

Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

The road seemed animated with a few more wagons than usual ; ;

Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

In connection with our continuing development of new and more efficient mill machinery, a sounder U. S. income tax policy on depreciation of production equipment, enabling the mills to charge off the cost of new machines on a more realistic basis, could, if adopted, have favorable effects on Leesona's business in the next few years.

Each year a few more institutions are deciding such questions as: Shall we require a liberal education built around a humanities core for all undergraduates??

however, he will have a clearer understanding of what he is doing and the chances are he will be more successful if he understands the few formulas that apply to rodding.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

Be sure to get a few more than you need.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

The local decorator who rushes in for a few hours of teaching may but more likely may not have these qualifications.

Ever since Bambi, and, more recently, Born Free, there have been a lot of books about animals, but few compare with Max Fink's wry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My Friend, the Quizzical Salamander.

Beyond a few million kilometers from the Earth, but still in the region of the Earth's orbit, a prediction of the flux of dust is even more unreliable.

of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan, in Yokuts, in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them.

The length of an axon can be extraordinary: for example, if a pyramidal cell of the cerebral cortex were magnified so that its cell body became the size of a human body, its axon, equally magnified, would become a cable a few centimeters in diameter, extending more than a kilometer.

However, a few operators offer the same services via the cable television infrastructure or, in selected areas, via FTTH.

In the ideal scenario, when any two WPAN-equipped devices come into close proximity ( within several meters of each other ) or within a few kilometers of a central server, they can communicate as if connected by a cable.

For example, Syfy ( distributed via cable and satellite television in the United States ) currently devotes most its air time to horror films with very few science fiction titles.

Titled I go Pogo, it was aired a few times on American cable channels, but has yet to be commercially released.

The 1857 cable only operated intermittently for a few days or weeks before it failed.

A few devices such as Digital's DEMPR and DESPR had a built-in terminator and so could only be used at one physical end of the cable run.

For power transmission at distances greater than a few kilometres see high-voltage cable, power cables and HVDC.

He died a few years later in 1940, the same year the last of the cable tram services in Melbourne ended.

The earliest systems used the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ) for the return path since very few cable systems were bi-directional.

" In practice, it was quickly discovered that few existing networks actually met the assumed standards, because 10-megabit Ethernet was very tolerant of minor deviations from specified electrical characteristics and few installers ever bothered to make exact measurements of cable and connection quality ; if Ethernet worked over a cable, it was deemed acceptable.

Had the WFL come into existence a few years later, the league might have succeeded, but the league predated the vast expansion of cable television and sports networks spearheaded by the birth of ESPN in 1979.

In November 2008, GSN and Meow Mix presented a special entitled Think Like a Cat, hosted by Chuck Woolery, with a top prize of $ 1, 000, 000, one of the few times a game show on cable TV has had that amount as a grand prize.

Before these DBS satellites, home satellite television in Europe was limited to a few channels, really intended for cable distribution, and requiring dishes typically of 1. 2m.

From the 1970s to the early 1990s DBS systems weren't available, and cable TV systems of the time only carried a few channels, resulting in a boom in sales of BUDs in the area, which led to the systems being termed the " West Virginia state flower ".

An entirely separate and simultaneous US feed was provided for cable viewers by MTV, whose broadcast was presented in stereo, and accessible as such for those with special receivers of the time, as there were very few stereo sets in the summer of 1985, and few television stations were able to broadcast in stereo.

The series was also unique in that it was among the few situation comedies in the late 1960s that did not use a laugh track ; however, 20th Century-Fox Television added them when the series was reissued for syndication and cable rebroadcasts in the late 1980s.

Cinemax HD is available on Dish Network, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Comcast, AT & T U-verse, Verizon FiOS and other major cable providers, although few providers offer all eight multiplex channels in HD.

This significant decline from over 2000 just a few years ago is attributable both to major cable companies acquiring smaller distributors and to a recent change in CRTC rules by which independent cable operators with fewer than 2, 000 subscribers are no longer required to operate under full CRTC licences.