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* The beginning of the novel Venus on the Half-Shell is set in 3069.
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beginning and novel
At the beginning of the novel, Rieux's wife, who has been ill for a year, leaves for a sanatorium.
The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.
By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.
Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.
Aspects of this trip to France were incorporated into Sterne ’ s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, which was published at the beginning of 1768.
A 1995 edition of all three completed Gormenghast novels includes a very short fragment of the beginning of what would have been the fourth Gormenghast novel, Titus Awakes, as well as a listing of events and themes he wanted to address in that and later Gormenghast novels.
When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.
It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy.
Finally, in the beginning of 2006, the novel was published in Egypt with a preface written by Ahmad Kamal Aboul-Magd.
He suspects that this is " just the beginning "- and as the novel ends, it is therefore implied that Runciter himself may be dead after all.
The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.
The search takes her to the Disk-system which is now inhabited by the survivors of the Garissan genocide, and finally ( with the aid of Calvert ) to an uninhabited system to find the Alchemist starship which was damaged at the beginning of the first novel.
Le Guin argues that these criteria may be successfully applied to works of science fiction and so answers in the affirmative her rhetorical question posed at the beginning of her essay: " Can a science fiction writer write a novel?
The novel explains the beginning of the Earth-Romulan war and the desperation of the Coalition of Planets.
Under the pseudonym " Adam Hall ", Trevor Dudley-Smith wrote the Quiller spy novel series, beginning with The Berlin Memorandum ( US: The Quiller Memorandum, 1965 ), a hybrid of glamour and dirt, Fleming and Le Carré.
In the beginning of the novel, Ramius kills Political Officer Ivan Putin to ensure that he will not interfere with the defection.
* Patriot Games ( 1981, based on a reference to Ryan's age, which is 31 at the beginning of the novel.
At the beginning of the novel, he and his partner Domingo Chavez capture an Aidid-like African warlord, Mohammed Abdul Corp, and bring him to justice.
* The villanelle supposedly written by Stephen Dedalus, protagonist in Joyce's novel " Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ", beginning with the line: " Are you not weary of ardent ways ..."
He achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers ( serialised 1846 / 7, published in book form in 1848 ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847.
Pregnant in the beginning of the novel, she delivers a stillborn baby, probably as a result of malnutrition.
The novel originally appeared as a serialization in McClure's, beginning with the November 1896 edition.
At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.
Soon after the series hit its stride, many of the authors produced novels and stories outside the anthologies, beginning with Beyond Sanctuary by Janet Morris, the first " authorized " Thieves World novel, published in 1985.
The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s.
beginning and Venus
On the left, is a model of the planet Mercury, showing its closest approach to the earth ; on the right, is information about Mercury and the beginning of his commentary on the planet Venus.
At the beginning of 1999 Graf played the warm up event to the Australian Open in Sydney ; she defeated Serena Williams in the 2nd round and Venus Williams in the quarter-finals before losing to Lindsay Davenport in the semi-final.
A text beginning substantially the same as the 1582 " Piae " version is also found in the German manuscript collection Carmina Burana as CB 142, where it is substantially more carnal ; CB 142 has clerics and virgins playing the game of Venus in the meadows, while in the Piae version they are praising the Lord from the bottom of their hearts.
In the table below, series names beginning with " A " are near the ascending node with respect to the Martian ecliptic, and occur when Venus has an angular diameter of approximately 23 – 24 ".
Series names beginning with " D " are near the descending node with respect to the Martian ecliptic, and occur when Venus has an angular diameter of approximately 18 – 19 ".
The transit that occurred on 21 March, 1894 was particularly interesting because later on the same day there was a transit of Mercury from Saturn, followed by the beginning of a transit of Mercury as viewed from Venus, although no two of the transits occurred simultaneously.
Venus was seen as a generally inauspicious and baleful influence, and Mayan rulers often planned the beginning of warfare to coincide with when Venus rose.
The extremely high ratio implies that there were large amounts of water in Venus's atmosphere more recently than the beginning of the solar system, and that a massive eruption would release large quantities of water ( as well as other compounds, for example the sulfur that leads to the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus ).
beginning and on
`` No '', I chuckled, `` I'm just beginning to collect dividends on my investment in education ''.
With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.
Even on his tough constitution, the exposure and strenuous activity were beginning to tell in earnest.
Now the riflemen and the Marylanders followed up their beginning and closed in on the British, giving them another telling round of fire.
Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
Among the most frequently quoted Biblical sentences are the Beatitudes and yet so few persons, other than scholars, really understand the true meaning of these eight blessings uttered by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount.
These are mentalities which crave action -- and they are beginning to get it, as Messrs. Salsich and Engh report on page 372.
He felt close to Mary, having spent so long concentrating on the beginning of her journey.
Replacing the discontinued Medical Technicians Bulletin, publication of which was suspended with the November-December 1959 issue, a section called `` Technical Notes '' was inaugurated on a bimonthly basis beginning with the April 1960 issue.
The Institute also planned to furnish a regular series of articles, beginning in the fall of 1960, on its more significant Scientific Exhibits.
Class 2, stations operating on clear channels are required to cease operation or operate under nighttime restrictions beginning either at local sunset ( for daytime class 2, stations ) or sunset at the location of the dominant class 1, station where located west of the class 2, station ( for limited-time class 2, stations ).
The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.
At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.
Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.
It would be a mistake to sell those thousands of beginning campers on the idea they're buying the comforts of home.
They were clumsy, but they were beginning to catch on.
He made it clear from the beginning that this was the students' opportunity, and that the future destiny of such groups depended on favorable results from this one.
One cannot assume, of course, that all these accumulated meanings were inherent in the stereotype at the beginning of the therapy, or at any one time later on when the stereotype was uttered ; ;
Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.
The eyeteeth ( third from the middle on top, counting each front tooth as the first ) beginning to protrude like fangs.
Contrary to the thinking of 30 to 40 years ago, when all malocclusion was blamed on some unfortunate habit, recent studies show that most tooth irregularity has at least its beginning in hereditary predisposition.
Shortly after the beginning of Sherman's Georgia campaign, an ailing Yank wrote his homefolk: `` the surgeon insisted on sending me to the hospital for treatment.
He splashed on, mud sucking at his feet with each step, until he reached the end of the drainage ditch and the beginning of the fence that enclosed the farm.
It was like a recurrent, annoying dream, but now the dream was beginning to take on overtones of a nightmare.
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