* Charles Dickens used Selkirk as a simile in Chapter Two of The Pickwick Papers: " Colonel Builder and Sir Thomas Clubber exchanged snuff – boxes, and looked very much like a pair of Alexander Selkirks — ' Monarchs of all they surveyed.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

Two clock ticks make up a slot of 625 µs ; two slots make up a slot pair of 1250 µs.

Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the " cooling rings " of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.

Two is " snake eyes ," because the two ones that comprise it look like a pair of small, beady eyes.

Two pendula with the same period fixed on a string act as pair of coupled oscillators.

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* Two pair is the most common case where strategy isn't obvious.

* Two three of a kinds: split off a pair from the higher group for the top.

Two quasars, a " quasar pair ", may be closely related in time and space, and be gravitationally bound to one another.

It is significant that the most successful of the post-Trinity films featured Hill ( Man of the East, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe ), Spencer ( It Can Be Done Amigo ) and a pair of Hill / Spencer look-alikes in Carambola.

Two young waif s steal a pair of boots.

Two Imperial Star Destroyers and a pair of TIE fighter s pursue the Millennium Falcon

Two categories are the same if they have the same collection of objects, the same collection of arrows, and the same associative method of composing any pair of arrows.

Two popular demonstration programs were an onscreen clock, which required about two pages of code, and a program which drew a pair of eyes that followed the cursor as it moved around the screen.

* Two suffragan bishops, styled evêque-duc pair de France:

Two stereo pairs of tracks ( four total ) or two monaural analog audio tracks are available on the tape ; one stereo pair or one monophonic track is played or recorded when the tape is moving in one direction and the second pair when moving in the other direction.

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

Ometeotl ( Two God ) is a name sometimes used about the pair of god Ometecuhtli / Omecihuatl ( also known as Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl ) in Aztec mythology.

In the early 1990s, Mullins released a pair of albums entitled The World As Best As I Remember It, Volume One and Two.

This continues until all players pass, or until one or more 2s are played ; as the 2 is the highest value, nothing can beat it except an additional 2 ( e. g. Two 2s beats a single 2, three 2s beat a pair, etc .).

Two students named Jack Stephens and Jack Pennington instinctively ran from cover and dragged the pair to safety.

Two submarines of the United States Navy have borne the name Amberjack, for a pair of species of vigorous sport fish.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

Two more shots followed in quick succession, dropping him limp and huddled on the ground.

Two uniformed officers, a couple of plain-clothesmen I knew, and two other men stood on a gray cement area next to the pool on my left.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

Two poets are paired on each record, in the order given above.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

Maple and ash, beech and elm, one hundred to win on Three in the fourth, fifty to win on Six in the third, one hundred to win on Two in the eighth.

Two special issues were published, one for November 1959 on Space Medicine, the other the Tenth Anniversary issue for January 1960.

Two or more dogs are mounted on each locking bar.

Two of the clamps are fixed to the edges of the board whereas two clamps travel on guide rails opposite the fixed clamps.

Two unsolved mysteries are based on these facts.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

Two counts of assault on an officer, resisting arrest, disturbance and cursing, police said.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

Two sharply contrasting places designed for public enjoyment are now on display.

Two related strands of research on altruism have emerged from traditional evolutionary analyses and from game theory.

Two works by Mauss in particular proved to have enduring relevance: Essay on the Gift, a seminal analysis of exchange and reciprocity, and his Huxley lecture on the notion of the person, the first comparative study of notions of person and selfhood cross-culturally.

Two diagonally-crossed silver swords with golden handles rest on top.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

Two years later, in 1120, he defeated a Muslim army intent on reconquering his new capital at the Battle of Cutanda.

Two treatises are sometimes erroneously attributed to him, one On Emotions, the other a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics ( really by Constantine Palaeocapa in the 16th century, or by John Callistus of Thessalonica ).