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But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.
But Interior Secretary Udall warns that there is a race on between those who would develop our few surviving open shorelines and those who would save them for the enjoyment of all as public preserves.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.
George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.
Researchers have pointed out that the reproductive strategy of the surviving nautiloids, which rely upon few and larger eggs, played a role in outsurviving their ammonoid counterparts through the extinction event.
A few days later, Julian was married to Helena, the last surviving sister of Constantius.
There are few surviving sources on Caligula's reign, although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first two years of his rule.
There are few surviving sources on Caligula and no surviving source paints Caligula in a favorable light.
* City of Adelaide Clipper Ship, one of the few surviving clippers
The few surviving bacteria conserve their energy and stored nutrients during the passage through the stomach by shutting down much protein production.
This group, he claimed, were the New Forest coven, and he believed them to be one of the few surviving covens of the ancient, pre-Christian Witch-Cult religion.
Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).
Holt's son Nicholas Holt said that after 37 years there were few surviving witnesses and no new evidence would be presented.
After the fall of Hitler, Hartmann was one of the few prominent surviving anti-fascists in Bavaria whom the postwar Allied administration could appoint to a position of responsibility.
The surviving records give only a few instances of lending features.
There are scattered survivals from the Iberian Peninsula before this time, of a type of notation known as Visigothic neumes, but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered .< ref > Zapke 2007,
The few surviving Merovingian edicts are almost entirely concerned with settling divisions of estates among heirs.
From these few references, which are the only surviving evidence apart from place name analysis, it would seem that the Balts Pytheas would have encountered were past the Common Balto-Slavic stage, but still spoke one language, which would have been Proto-Baltic.
Before that date, the only papyri known were a few surviving from medieval times.
This was a highly gregarious species the flock could initiate courtship and reproduction only when they were gathered in large numbers ; it was realized only too late that smaller groups of Passenger Pigeons could not breed successfully, and the surviving numbers proved too few to re-establish the species.
There are few representations of this type of choke in surviving art objects, but there are a number of references to it in the ancient literature.
Lingula is among the few brachiopods surviving today but also known from fossils over 500 million years old.
Unlike the works of her fellow poet, Alcaeus, Sappho's surviving poetry has very few allusions to political conditions.
This unexpected development sets the stage for the second act ( December 2001 — November 2005 ), in which humans from Earth colonize the deserted planet, occasionally having contact with the few surviving Martians, but for the most part preoccupied with making Mars a second Earth.

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Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.
Faulkner's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life.
The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.
She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.
Although the family ( Amaranthaceae ) is distinctive, the genus has few distinguishing characters among the 70 species included.
A few US professional societies whose professions frequently employ various non-word characters, such as chemistry and computer programming, use the British form in their style guides ( see ACS Style Guide ).
Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.
Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).
Most teleprinters operated at ten characters per second although a few achieved 15 CPS.
This presents few problems for English-speaking users, but other languages regularly — in some cases, always — require characters outside that range.
If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).
* Masamune Shirow's other major work, Appleseed also contains a multitude of cyborg characters, with one of the main characters, Briareos Hecatonchires, the mercenary Sokaku Tatara and his war buddies, and the Mumna Holy Republic diplomat Kainisu, from the fourth chapter, are just a few.
Early computers permitted only a few letters or digits in the name of a file, but modern computers allow long names ( some up to 255 characters ) containing almost any combination of unicode letters or unicode digits, making it easier to understand the purpose of a file at a glance.
The radical-and-stroke system is cumbersome compared to an alphabetical system in which there are a few characters, all unambiguous.
The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably " Pick The Winner.
After Montag starts to rip a few pages from the beginning of a rare copy of The New Testament ( one of the few left that actually contains God's word, rather than the bastardized versions that have Jesus and other Biblical characters shilling products ), Faber relents and teaches Montag about the importance of literature in its attempt to explain human existence.
As with the misconception that Marlow is hypocritical, only a few characters in Heart of Darkness are actually depraved.
A few authors have used " idiot " characters in novels, plays and poetry.
These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages ( with a few exceptions due to missing characters, as noted ):
Other major characters include Ivanhoe's intractable father, Cedric, one of the few remaining Saxon lords ; various Knights Templar and churchmen ; the loyal serfs Gurth the swineherd and the jester Wamba, whose observations punctuate much of the action ; and the Jewish moneylender, Isaac of York, who is equally passionate about money and his daughter, Rebecca.
While we may suspect a few characters, such as Medb or Cú Roí, of once being deities, and Cú Chulainn in particular displays superhuman prowess, the characters are mortal and associated with a specific time and place.

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