Soon, however, they found local actors willing to partner with them in these vicious but profitable affairs: some chiefs were willing to part with a few of the less desirable members of their tribes for a price ; others went into the war business — a bevy of battle captives could be sold for a fortune in European rum, cloth, beads, copper, or muskets.

On another occasion when there was a cholera epidemic, some Brixham smugglers drove their cargo up from the beach in a hearse, accompanied by a bevy of supposed mourners following the cortege drawn by horses with muffled hooves.

These are Red's natural son Randy, newly introduced to the Road and tired of his old life in Ohio ; a bevy of would-be assassins attempting to kill Red, some of whom are comic references to pulp characters, or real people ( it is implied that Ambrose Bierce is writing a novel somewhere on the metaphysical highway ) and Leila, a woman whose fate is bound to Red's in mysterious and unexplained ways.

According to some accounts, at the Quebec Conference of 1943 Lord Mountbatten brought a block of Pykrete along to demonstrate its potential to the bevy of admirals and generals who had come along with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The high elevation of the roadway gave rise to a bevy of scenic, panoramic views that stretched for several miles into the distance ; as a result, a fifth lane was added in some areas to allow motorists to stop and view the scenery.

Michael got significant latitude in his programming, employing a bevy of segments some might consider old-fashioned, including his " Tuesday Replays " and " Wednesday Wrestling.

Rocky IV is one of the few sport movies that applies genuine sound effects from actual hits, bonafide training methods created by consultants and a bevy of special effects that in turn creates a film that has grown in popularity.

She tested for the role, which went to Gertrude Olmstead instead, but soon after she was hired as an extra for Pretty Ladies, in which she and fellow newcomer Joan Crawford were among a bevy of chorus girls dangling from an elaborate chandelier.

She made history by becoming the first woman of Indian origin to win the crown, beating a bevy of beauties from around the world.

[...] somehow managed to capture the essence of the genre while completely rewriting its rule book ", commenting that it was also " the first to fuse black metal with progressive and symphonic elements, setting the stage for a bevy of future experimentation in the genre [...] As such, it certainly possesses the farthest-reaching legacy of anything from Norway's bloody first wave, and ranks as one of the most important heavy metal albums of the ' 90s.

According to Sarada Devi, she used to see a bevy of eight girls of her age coming from an unknown place and escorting her in her chores during her childhood.

20 Minute Workout is a Canadian-produced aerobics-based television program that ran from 1983 to 1984, in which " a bevy of beautiful girls " demonstrated exercise on a rotating platform.

With the aid of an explosive superdrug, he sets about reassembling his girlfriend, selecting the choicest bits from a bevy of raunchy New York prostitutes.

Films in this genre included Doris Wishman's science fiction spoof Nude on the Moon ( 1963 ), the Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman film The Adventures of Lucky Pierre ( 1961 ), and Ed Wood's horror-nudie Orgy of the Dead ( 1965 ), with its bevy of topless dancers from beyond the grave, following his western screenplay, Revenge of the Virgins ( 1959 ), which shows a fierce tribe of bare-breasted Indian women hunting a group of treasure seekers.

In the early 1950s, William Gaines shifted the focus of his father's comic book Company, EC Comics, from educational to gruesome, with a bevy of titles such as Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science, and Crime SuspenStories, and became the best selling company of the time ( and perhaps all time, although sales records from the period are imprecise ).

* The toughest competition for the NMB Charger gymnastics team during their undefeated glory days of the late 1970s under head coach Peter Saponaro-himself an All-American and co-captain of an NCAA Championship Men's team at Pennsylvania State University in the 1960s-The team was stocked with a bevy of talented gymnasts: Laurie Reiff, the Zobler sisters, Toby Kapp, Joyce Budowsky and Yael Kantor.

" was uncensored, shocking such prominent audience members as Lewis Carroll, who later wrote: " a bevy of sweet innocent-looking girls sing, with bright and happy looks, the chorus ' He said, Damn me!

Among its most popular feature are its liveblogs of cricket matches, which includes a bevy of scorecard options, allowing readers to track such aspects of the game as wagon wheels and partnership breakdowns.

She was inspired by Victorian writers such as Wilkie Collins ; his novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ), with its plot twists and bevy of narrators, was " a major model ".

By this time, Webb had left the group and Talk Talk had morphed into what was essentially a brand name for the studio recordings of Hollis and Friese-Greene, along with a bevy of session studio players ( including long-term Talk Talk drummer Harris, who featured intermittently ).

" The bulk of JINSA's modest annual budget is spent on taking a bevy of retired US generals and admirals to Israel, where JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and the still-influential US flag officers, who, upon their return to the States, happily write op-eds and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line.

However, he did reveal that there was a " 1998 legal agreement signed by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch and myself dividing up our creative properties " that left Bisette with " N-Man, the Fury, the Hypernaut and Commander Solo & Her Screamin ' Skydogs " who, he thought, " fit nicely with a bevy of my own characters and concepts I've never had homes for: Curtis Slarch, Lo !, ' The Big Dig ,' and much, much more you ’ ve never heard of or seen because I could never interest a publisher in those projects.

At once a bevy of dogs was snapping and snarling around him.

The single was accompanied by a memorable and much-parodied music video, directed by Terence Donovan, in which Palmer is surrounded by a bevy of near-identically clad, heavily made-up ( and appropriately pouty ) female " musicians ," either mimicking or mocking the painting of Patrick Nagel.

Loos was apprehensive, but Cukor insisted she do the changes on set, amongst his all-star bevy of leading ladies.

The magazine wrote, " While a bevy of one-pocket geniuses abound, Efren Reyes, whose prowess in one-pocket is sometimes obscured by his 9-ball stardom, was the popular pick.

Sullivan was first nominated in December 2010, but because the Senate didn't approve her nomination and a bevy of others forwarded late in December, the White House renewed the formal requests.

Socially, he was generous and jovial, and generally surrounded by a bevy of beautiful young women, including for example Victoria Principal, later widely known as a star in the TV series " Dallas ".

Savage was offered a screentest by Fox, but she " decided not to turn up as she knew the studio already had a bevy of pretty blondes ".

In New Delhi she reciprocated by taking me to her fortune-teller — not just hers, but that of a bevy of Indian leaders, including former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter and successor as prime minister, Indira Gandhi .... Before I was thirty-five, he said, I would go to my country's capital to work on something that was important.

With a cast that included Superstar RuPaul, DJ Larry Tee, Lahoma Van Zant, Lady Bunny, Michael Musto, artist Albert Crudo and a bevy of other colorful characters making cameo appearances, it was the epi-center of a creative revolution.

The team's performance suffered the next two seasons and when Manning was fired, a bevy of drivers ran in Ganassi's cars, among them former Formula One test drivers Ryan Briscoe and Giorgio Pantano, and Jaques Lazier.

A bevy of prominent speakers addressed the gathering, which was coordinated by National Secretary Paul Landsbergis, with lecturers including Sidney Hook, Tom Kahn, SDUSA Executive Director Carl Gershman, professors Seymour Martin Lipset and Robert Scalapino, and representatives of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and the American Federation of Teachers.

Management addressed the issue by signing a bevy of experienced offensive linemen in OT Ray Pinney ( Pittsburgh Steelers ), OG Tyrone McGriff ( Pittsburgh Steelers ) and OG Thom Dornbrook ( NY Giants ).

The collective noun for a group of quail is a covey or bevy.

The collective nouns for otters are bevy, family, lodge or romp, being descriptive of their often playful nature, or when in water, raft.

Additionally, the university is home to a bevy of research institutes and centers including the Gateway University Research Park, Center for Applied Research, Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Center for Drug Discovery, Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, Center for Biotechnology, Genomics & Health Research, Music Research Institute and the Southeastern Regional Vision for Education ( SERVE ).

The Planning Department unveiled a major reworking of its plans for the old Kai Tak airport site on 17 October 2006, containing " a basket of small measures designed to answer a bevy of concerns raised by the public ".

The label also released a bevy of side projects by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker of Ministry, including Revolting Cocks, Acid Horse ( a collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire ), Pailhead ( a collaboration with Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat ), PTP ( short for " Programming The Psychodrill "), Lead Into Gold ( a solo vehicle for Barker ), and 1000 Homo DJs.

60, 000 copies were snapped up overnight, and a bevy of requests for reorders arrived days later.

The plane featured a wet bar stocked with a bevy of cocktail selections, as well as a scaled-down version of Armando Romeu's orchestra for anyone brave enough to dance in the aisles.