Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

When he had given the call a few moments thought, he went into the kitchen to ask Mrs. Yamata to prepare tea and sushi for the visitors, using the formal English china and the silver tea service which had been donated to the mission, then he went outside to inspect the grounds.

There are also a few " natural " instances: English words unconsciously created by switching letters around.

About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

The problem, however, was that there were few " books of wisdom " written in English.

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

" They are present in a few historic Protestant versions: the German Luther Bible included such books, as did the English 1611 King James Version.

In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.

The French caught up to the English a few miles southwest of Poitiers.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

Cheddar Wood is one of only a few English stations for Starved Wood-sedge ( Carex depauperata ).

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

What is striking about these early cases is that unlike modern courts, the medieval English courts never questioned the right of the actual plaintiffs to sue on behalf of a group or a few representatives to defend an entire group.

As of May 2007, only a few works have been translated into English.

Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels ( computer mouse-), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, a few years earlier.

While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.

English is one of the few European languages that does not have many words that contain diacritical marks.

A few English words can only be distinguished from others by a diacritic or modified letter, including animé, exposé, lamé, maté, öre, øre, pâté, piqué, rosé, and soufflé.

) In addition, a few English pronouns have distinct nominative and objective forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their relationship to a verb or preposition.

Information about the schools of the English Province is limited, but a few facts are known.

His more serious writings begin early with the Enchiridion militis Christiani, the " Handbook of the Christian Soldier " ( 1503 ) ( translated into English a few years later by the young William Tyndale ).

Most countries control bank mergers and are wary of concentration in this industry due to the danger of groupthink and runaway lending bubbles based on a single point of failure, the credit culture of the few large banks.

However, this symbol was not widely used: few systems at the time could render it and in any case banks preferred ( as with all currencies ) to use the ISO code XEU.

The banks had excess reserves, and lending rates were in the area of 26 to 29 percent, with few borrowers.

While many phantom islands appear never to have existed, a few ( such as, perhaps, Thompson Island or Bermeja ) may have been actual islands subsequently destroyed by volcanic explosions, earthquakes or submarine landslides, or low-lying lands such as sand banks that are no longer above water.

In a few hundred years they disappeared, to be replaced by the ceramic-using and agriculturalist Saladoid people around 100 BC, who migrated to St. Kitts north up the archipelago from the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

Potentially insolvent banks have made too few good loans creating a debt overhang problem.

The palace is located on a leafy, riverside sprawl of hills on the banks of the Brunei River directly south of Bandar Seri Begawan, a few miles outside the city center.

Around 1820 an estancia ( station ) was established a few miles north on the banks of the Santa Ana River to accommodate the Mission's sizeable cattle herd.

Over the next few months, seven strongholds were set up on the north bank, and four on the south bank, with the small riverine isle of Charlemagne ( west of Orleans ) commanding the bridges connecting the two banks.

Słupsk developed from a few medieval settlements located on the banks of the Słupia River, at the unique ford along the trade route connecting the territories of modern Pomeranian and West Pomeranian Voivodeships.

Mindelo has schools, high schools, some parks, banks and a few squares praças.

Over 100, 000 years ago, Krypton had already developed scientific advancements far beyond those of present-day Earth, and within a few millennia had conquered disease, learned to delay the aging process, and perfected cloning ; vast banks of non-sentient clones held multiple copies of each living Kryptonian so that replacement parts were always available in the case of injury.

A small shopping area as been located on Highland Avenue at Piedmont Park for many years, but in the last few decades has become nothing more than a convenience store, service station and three banks.

Albert Dickman ’ s house, finished in 1910, on the banks of the Little Manatee River, is one of the few structures left standing from the founding of Ruskin.

The town of Utica had previously been established on the banks of the Illinois River during the 1830s, but flooding and the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal a few miles north encouraged redevelopment of the village there as North Utica.

Included were a large variety of stores, several hotels, banks, and lodges still sharing the street with a few dwellings.

Farmers and Traders Savings Bank ( founded 1910 ) is located in Douds, and is one of the few banks to survive the Great Depression.

The State Bank of Oswego started business a few weeks later, but discontinued after a short time, as there was not business enough for two banks.

The Red River flows north, is part of a vast watershed, and when out of its banks adds to the overland flooding seen in very few places.

The Bank of Swanton was one of the few small-town banks in the state that survived the Depression of the 1930s.

Over the next few years, the club grew rapidly and in 1876, they dedicated their newly built clubhouse on the banks of the Delaware River at York Street.

Tavern 16 is a more recent addition to the four corners, just a few doors down from the Mercantile and on the banks of Stony Creek itself.

Cope Creek: Located along Cope Creek Road and between NC 107 and US 74 / 23, Cope Creek neighborhood is mostly residential, with a few commercial areas near the highways, including several gas stations, strip malls, fast food restaurants, and banks.

Anglo-American settlement of the area began in 1856 when John Leakey, his wife Nancy, and a few others settled near a spring along the banks of the Frio River.