To demonstrate the soil of his vegetable gardens as it is today, Mr. Clark stooped to scoop up a handful of rich dark earth.

Lyons says " His teachings were followed so slavishly that his assertion ... that the earth was flat and ' resembles a wheel ' long retained a hold on many in medieval Europe, even if a handful of scholars and learned monks knew otherwise ".

Therefore the younger brother of the latter, Oduduwa, took the three items of creation from him, climbed down from the heavens on a chain and threw a handful of earth on the primordial ocean, then put a cockerel on it so that it would scatter the earth, thus creating the land on which Ile Ife would be built.

However, the attack fails miserably, and the Division is nearly wiped out, although a handful of survivors, including Lance " Lancer " Belmont are able to reach earth.

In a fit of rage, he poured the water on to the earth, seized a handful of the resulting mud and threw it at the queens head.

Throughout the summer of 1960, minor landslides and earth movements were noticed ; however instead of heeding these warning signs, the Italian government chose to sue the handful of journalists reporting the problems for " undermining the social order.

As a result, Sylhet developed into a region that was home to numerous saints and Islamic shrines His uncle, Sheikh Kabir, one day gave Shah Jalal a handful of earth and asked him to travel to Hindustan with the instruction that he should settle down at whichever place in Hindustan whose soil matched completely in smell and color, and devote his life for the propagation and establishment of Islam there.

After her second confession to judge Dominguez, when Rebeca goes to the cemetery to throw a handful of earth on her husband's coffin, we hear the second piece, Saeta, by Gil Evans, from his Sketches of Spain.

A Rajput person of Kachawa clan was returning home with his bride, the Rajput obeyed the rule and removed the earth but the Gaurs insisted that his wife should do the same. His widow went to Amarsar and placed a handful of dust before Shekha and told him the fame of the Kachawas would be tarnished if they did not take revenge upon the Gaurs.

Out of compassion Mula Jadi sends his granddaughter a handful of earth so that she can find somewhere to live.

When Dr. Gō returned to Boazania, he broke him from capture and escaped with him to earth, along with a handful of rebels.

*" There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Of the handful of groups not taken down by disco's fall from favor, The Jacksons — and Michael Jackson in particular — stand out: In spite of having helped define the disco sound early on, they continued to make popular and danceable, if more refined, songs for yet another generation of music fans in the 1980s and beyond.

Despite the title, it omitted a handful of articles due to problems clearing the rights on some book excerpts and text taken from recordings, such as Andy Griffith's " What It Was, Was Football.

For example, in Ontario a survey taken throughout the province might use a larger sampling fraction in the less populated north, since the disparity in population between north and south is so great that a sampling fraction based on the provincial sample as a whole might result in the collection of only a handful of data from the north.

American pioneers thought that “ a handful of violets taken into the farmhouse in the spring ensured prosperity, and to neglect this ceremony brought harm to baby chicks and ducklings .” On account of its place in American hearts, a game called “ Violet War ” also arose.

As the Astoria Country Club calls upon Mikey's father to sign over the deed to his property, Rosalita, the Walshes ' maid, discovers that Mikey's marble bag contains a large handful of jewels taken from the ship.

There are, however, a handful of individuals who have frequently taken a greater leadership role with various teams more often than others.

In the ensuing fighting there, almost all of the Australians were killed, while a handful were taken prisoner.

Eric Fournier, a French diplomat who served as Butler's deputy at UNSCOM in 1998, told an Australian journalist, Christopher Kremmer, that the US bombing of Iraq in 1998 — which made the UNSCOM mission untenable — occurred " because Richard Butler reported that the Iraqis had not cooperated with inspections, even though more than three hundred had taken place in a few weeks and only a handful had been a problem.

The command of the handful of troops at Tiger Hill had been taken up by Captain Amer.

There are a handful of scenes throughout the series that suggest that The Man and BOB are allies ; this is also consistent with MIKE removing his arm, as typically this is an action taken when the appendage causes harm.

From this stock of sanchita karma, a handful is taken out to serve one lifetime and this handful of actions, which have begun to bear fruit and which will be exhausted only on their fruit being enjoyed and not otherwise, is known as prarabdha karma.

The Irish State was officially neutral during World War II, known within the Republic of Ireland as " The Emergency " although it is estimated that about 100, 000 men from Ireland took part on the side of the Allies, while a handful may have taken the part of their opponents.

Despite commercial success, the book was taken up by only a handful of schools, most of which are privately run and located in a comparatively small geographic area of Tokyo.

Jones claimed to have killed around 4000 Royalist or Confederate soldiers and taken 2517 prisoners, while losing only a handful himself.

Whereas once the village had 17 public houses and dozens of small shops, along with a gas works, it now has six pubs and only a handful of shops ( there are eight pubs if the parish is taken as a whole ).

In the end, Ransom's role as a saint or prophet is enhanced by his being taken alive into Heaven ( actually, back to Venus / Perelandra ), an honour reserved only to a very small handful of particularly deserving Biblical and mythical characters.

Today, only a scant handful of homes ( perhaps as few as six ) from the neighborhood's original residents survive, none in restored condition, and the area has been taken over by light industry and many low-income residences built in later years.

" Repeat To Fade " and " The World is Yours ", taken from the album, were released as singles and the band toured Europe and Japan with German bands Die Toten Hosen and The Donots as well as a handful of UK tours and festival slots including the first Download festival.

At the start of the war, they had just under 7, 000 rifles, a few machine guns and a handful of armoured cars taken from British garrisons ( who were under orders not to fire on IRA units ) as they evacuated the country.

Andrew L Urban, for Yahoo, wrote Encouraged by Crackerjack, perhaps I expected too much from Bad Eggs .... There are a handful of good laughs .. but the tone shifts, and shifts again., as if the storyline had taken control of the writing process, elbowing out the sense of humour.

Currently, there are some 6000 companies in the field, ranging from small firms with a handful of employees to major concerns having complete facilities for production of metal, electrical, and plastic components.

six hours of manual labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars, and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking ; ;

Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich ; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.

To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict ’ s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles.

After the Reform Act, which disenfranchised many of the rotten boroughs ( boroughs that had declined in importance, had only a small population, and had only a handful of eligible voters ), parliamentary constituencies began to diverge from the ancient boroughs.

Of the more than 200 studio albums I ’ ve produced in the past forty plus years, there is a handful ; maybe fifteen or so that I can actually listen to from top to bottom.

Apart from a handful of cases, these designations are not currently in use.

* Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Richard II and Henry V. The movie, also known as Falstaff, features Welles himself in the title role.

Air Haïti, Tropical Airways and a handful of major airlines from Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas serve the airport.

Dewsnap writes about Orton's agent Peggy Ramsay: "... At the scattering of Joe's and Kenneth's ashes, his sister took a handful from both urns and said, ' A little bit of Joe, and a little bit of Kenneth.

By 1986, Moi had concentrated all the power-and most of its attendant economic benefits-into the hands of his Kalenjin tribe and of a handful of allies from minority groups.

His support prevented more than a handful of Quebec Liberal Members of Parliament ( MPs ) from leaving the party, and was therefore crucial to keeping the government and the party united.

The MMM and MSM rejoined in a coalition that won the 2000 elections and, although a handful of MPs defected from the MSM in early 2005, both parties went together to the next election in July 2005, competing against the Alliance Sociale, a MLP-led coalition.

The outstanding handful of Frankish saints who were not of the Merovingian kinship nor the family alliances that provided Merovingian counts and dukes, deserve a closer inspection for that fact alone: like Gregory of Tours, they were almost without exception from the Gallo-Roman aristocracy in regions south and west of Merovingian control.

This text, based on a handful of manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type, was the basis for other translations from the Greek until the latter part of the 19th century.

It was originally initiated by a handful of neighbourhood watch members from a few coloured Cape Town townships who decided to organize public demonstrations to pressure the government to fight the illegal drug trade and gangsterism more effectively.

LARPs vary in size from a handful of players to several thousand, and in duration from a couple of hours to several days.

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from its formation in April 1994 until 2002.

They are one of only a handful of bands among them the Hoodoo Gurus ( half of the original line-up of the Hoodoo Gurus also came from Perth ) and The Sunnyboys ) that cracked the mainstream charts with an indie approach in the 1980s.

This featured a different version of the track " Don't Think " and announced that the movie would feature new music from The Chemical Brothers, along with a handful of other artists.

Since then, XTC became exclusively a studio band, apart from occasional live-to-air performances from radio stations, and a handful of TV appearances.