The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

In the 19th century, Nova Scotia became a world leader in both building and owning wooden sailing ships in the second half of the 19th century.

The wooden bleachers were replaced with concrete, shrinking the " death valley " area of left and center substantially, although the area was still much deeper than in most ballparks ; and the second and third decks were extended to short right center.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

There was concern that growth would necessitate the construction of a second bridge across the river into the town, thus putting further strain on the wooden town.

On 3 April a second raid by Liberator bombers of the U. S. Army Air Forces damaged the wooden bridge once again.

The first, designated the Type 171, had a shaky start after the wooden rotor blades of the second prototye failed on its first flight in 1949.

Jordan undertook two renovations of the Dome of the Rock, replacing the leaking, wooden dome with an aluminum dome in 1952, and, when the new dome leaked, carrying out a second restoration between 1959 and 1964.

The second castle of Opole was probably founded in the 14th century by duke Władysław Opolczyk, though some sources claim that it was originally a wooden stronghold of Opole's castellan dating into 12th century.

The second is the wooden hanger, which consists of a flat piece of wood cut into a boomerang-like shape with the edges sanded down to prevent damage to the clothing, and a hook, usually of metal, protruding from the point.

Among the most important pieces on display in the church are a wooden crucifix by Master Imervard ( second half of the 12th century ) and one of very few huge bronze candlesticks with seven arms, from around 1170-1180.

After this, however, the club lapsed into a state of decline ; their status as a potential powerhouse at the beginning of the decade was reduced with each passing season and the club ultimately received a second wooden spoon in 1999.

The first county courthouse, a log and wooden frame building with an attached jail, was built on south side of the public square ; a second, larger, two-story brick courthouse with a separate jailhouse was built in 1817.

The off-field confusion was reflected in the players ' performance as Richmond slumped to only its second wooden spoon in 70 years.

The first building erected in Oxford was a two-story, wooden frame courthouse, designed and built by Francis Boynton, and the second was a hotel, built by Henry L. Ellsworth and operated by James L. Hatton.

The original wooden buildings at the foot of the butte were destroyed in a fire in the 1890s, and another disastrous fire in 1926 consumed the second monastery, an imposing five-story edifice of black basalt at the top of the butte.

For a long time, it was assumed that the latest portraits belong to the end of the 4th century, but recent research has modified this view considerably, suggesting that the last wooden portraits belong to the middle, the last directly painted mummy wrappings to the second half of the 3rd century.

The second type, the shiai yo, uses a similar wooden shaft, but the blade is constructed from bamboo and is replaceable as it can break through hard contact.

Ascension Cathedral, Almaty | Zenkov Cathedral, a 19th-century Russian Orthodox Church | Russian Orthodox cathedral located in Panfilov Park, is the second tallest wooden building in the world.

To solemnize Portugal's claim to the land, the wooden cross was erected and a second religious service held on 1 May.

The museum made several important acquisitions in the following years, among them a second Gutenberg Bible, the Shuckburgh Bible in two volumes ( 1978 ), and two block books printed using wooden formes and today extremely rare.

Most of the 168 post holes held wooden posts, although Cunnington found evidence that a pair of standing stones may have been placed between the second and third post hole rings.

Mold-blowing was an alternate glassblowing method that came after the invention of free-blowing during the first part of the second quarter of the 1st century AD A glob of molten glass is placed on the end of the blowpipe which is then inflated into a wooden or metal carved mold.

By his second visit in September 1303, the castle's wooden interior had been burned while held by the English governor, Henry de Rye.