For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

As a result, significant decisions could be effected quickly and either verbally or with written orders a few pages in length.

In a few pages, Gettier argued that there are situations in which one's belief may be justified and true, yet fail to count as knowledge.

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.

Writer Daniel Defoe devotes a few pages to the town in A tour thro ' the Whole Island of Great Britain.

A single Renaissance printing press could produce 3, 600 pages per workday, compared to forty by typographic hand-printing and a few by hand-copying.

Stories like " A Clean, Well-Lighted Place " ( 1926 ), " Hills Like White Elephants " ( 1927 ) and " The Snows of Kilimanjaro " ( 1936 ) are only a few pages long, but carefully crafted.

A great many more lessons, lectures and traditions only alluded to in the few hundred pages of Mishnah, became the thousands of pages now called the Gemara.

" ( Although the " reduction " mentioned is spurious as the two diagrams 3. 4 and 3. 5 are in fact the same ) and also " As we will see on the next few pages, the look-across interpretation introduces several difficulties which prevent the extension of simple mechanisms from binary to n-ary associations.

Segments can be moved in and out of that space ; pages there can " page " in and out of main memory, providing two levels of virtual memory ; few if any operating systems do so, instead using only paging.

What had begun as a few pages, photocopied and sold to friends, became a publishing phenomenon.

Later, in San Francisco in 1970, I was asked to contribute a few pages to Real Pulp Comics # 1, edited by cartoonist Roger Brand.

The content of Being and Time, according to Husserl, claimed to deal with ontology, but from Husserl's perspective only did so in the first few pages of the book.

There is no central organization rationing the number of links, yet the number of links pointing to each page follows a power law in which a few pages are linked to many times and most pages are seldom linked to.

After a few more seconds he will grab a big red book out of his pocket, sit down, and start reading, flipping pages occasionally.

Unlike earlier sections devoted to other heresies, which are disposed of succinctly in just a few lines, this chapter runs into several pages.

* One of the oldest Arabic manuscript fragments from Syria ( a few handwritten pages ) dating to the early 9th century.

Ideas are abandoned and then recalled a few pages on ; examples and data are offered, compared and contrasted, conclusions made and broken, as Fort holds up the unorthodox to the scrutiny of the orthodoxy that continually fails to account for them.

Modern vector editors are capable of, and often preferable for, designing unique documents ( like flyers or brochures ) of up to a few pages ; it's only for longer or more standardized documents that the page layout programs are more suitable.

Furthermore, much of the appeal of Defoe's novel is the detailed and captivating account of Crusoe's thoughts, occupations and activities which goes far beyond that of Rogers ' basic descriptions of Selkirk, which account for only a few pages.

There was often considerable variation between the editions, particularly with the front page lead and following few pages, including the Londoner's Diary, though features and reviews stayed the same.

A few months earlier, Kirsten Seaver had suggested that a forger could have found two separate blank leaves in the original " Speculum Historiale " volume, from which the first few dozen pages are missing, and joined them together with the binding strip.

A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

When the parents emerged from the bedroom a few minutes later, the maid greeted them quietly.

A few years later the dome fell in.

but a few seconds later she was standing directly across the room from me, looking me in the eyes and saying in a scathingly condemnatory tone, `` Your father despises you ''!!

The audition was held a few minutes later in somebody's apartment.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

A few minutes later, FBI agent Francis Crosby, talking fast, eased up the ramp to the plane, unarmed.

A few moments later her hands were trembling and her brow had contracted with anxiety and dismay.

Front legs are formed under the gill sac and hind legs become visible a few days later.

A few days later, the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxine concentration required for this to take place.

He soon lost consciousness and bled to death a few minutes later.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

A few years later Whitney and his American contemporaries succeeded in introducing the relevant concepts ( interchangeable parts, tool-path control via machine tools and jigs, transfer of skill to the equipment, allowing use of semi-skilled or unskilled machine operators ) to American firearm-manufacture.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

When Charles left Germany a few weeks later, Albert renewed his depredations in Franconia.

A few years later, he received a few shares in T. T.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

He returned to academia a few years later as a professor at the University of Montpellier, where he stayed until his retirement in 1988.