He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

ripe pears lying in long grass, to be turned over by a dusty-slippered foot, cautiously, lest bees still worked in the ragged, brown-edged holes ; ;

He'll still be a top player, they concede, because he's got a great glove and the long ball going for him.

As Critic Walter Kerr points out: `` Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative ''.

Everyone is ambivalent about his profession, if he has practised it long enough, but there were still moments when he loved the stage and all those unseen people out there, who might cheer you or boo you, but that was largely, though not entirely, up to you.

First is the long and still somewhat obscure process of preparation, planning and discussion.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Hoag pushed open the door: at the far end of the long dark room Muller was faintly silhouetted against the window, the rifle still raised ; ;

But we still have a long way to go.

In my person they would always remember that last long time of me alone with her, so if they told themselves that I could have prevented it, I can understand that by now and love them still, because everyone must justify, have a scapegoat for what is not to be borne.

Robbie and Beryl tried their best to persuade her to come and stay with them, and Anne and I have told her she's more than welcome here, but I think she feels that she might be an imposition, especially as long as our Rosie is still in high school.

He was a beautiful boy, really, with finely-spun blonde hair and a smooth and still effeminate face, and his eyelashes were long and dark and brushlike, and his eyes were blue.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Saturated hydrocarbons can also combine any of the linear, cyclic ( e. g., polycyclic ) and branching structures, and they are still alkanes ( no general formula ) as long as they are acyclic ( i. e., having no loops ). They also have single covalent bonds between their carbons.

In common with the rest of the South Wales coalfield, Aberdare's coal industry commenced a long decline after World War I, and the last two deep mines still in operation in the 1960s were the small Aberaman and Fforchaman collieries, which closed in 1962 and 1965 respectively.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

Yet some still fought on ; and it was not until long after nightfall, when many a ship was blazing from the firebrands thrown upon them, that the work was done.

It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.

Several competing models, although correctly dealing with the conformation of each individual peptide chain, gave way to the triple-helical " Madras " model, which provided an essentially correct model of the molecule's quaternary structure although this model still required some refinement .< ref > The packing structure of collagen has not been defined to the same degree outside of the fibrillar collagen types, although it has been long known to be hexagonal or quasi-hexagonal.

He was, along with the earlier John Playfair, the major advocate of James Hutton's idea of uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces still in operation today, acting over a very long period of time.

As Hope descends to the ground and cradles Cable's lifeless arm, Xavier reflects on everything that has transpired and states that, while he feels that Hope has indeed come to save mutantkind and revive his dream, she is still only a young woman and will have a long and difficult journey before she can truly achieve her potential.

It is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films ( most previous films had been less than one hour long ), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today .< ref >

In 18th and 19th century Germany, several thousand local languages of the continental west Germanic dialect continuum were reclassified as dialects of modern New High German although the vast majority of them were ( and still are ) mutually incomprehensible, despite the fact that they all existed long before New High German, which had at least in part been shaped as a compromise or mediative language between these local languages.

Algebra still had a long way to go before very general problems could be written down and solved succinctly.

This meaning is still occasionally found, especially in names which were originally given long ago.

The Basotho, who dwelt in the upper valleys of the Orange River, had subsisted under a semi-protectorate of the British government from 1843 to 1854 ; but having been left to their own resources on the abandonment of the Orange sovereignty, they fell into a long exhaustive warfare with the Boers of the Orange Free State.

Conventional food distribution and long distance transport are additionally resource and energy exhaustive.

Considered one of his most important works, Nichols's monumental History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, was the most ambitious of the antiquarian county histories ( extremely long, but the quality of the content is very variable ), a massive compendium of historical notes, manuscripts and engraved plates printed by subscription after an exhaustive survey of the county, and published in eight parts not in chronological order to make up four volumes when complete, from 1795 – 1815.

It was long believed in the noble Russell family, certainly by the 2nd Earl of Bedford, that the family was descended from the ancient family of Russell of Kingston Russell in Dorset, three miles northeast of Berwick, which descent was declared unproven by Gladys Scott Thomson, FRHist. Soc., in her Two Centuries of Family History, London, 1930, an exhaustive and scholarly work on the early pedigree of the Earls of Bedford.

After a long and exhaustive bout with the senior disciples, Musashi eventually loses them in a bamboo forest and sneaks into Sekishūsai's cottage after a brief, but emotional reunion with Otsu.

Certainly, an exhaustive search on all possible combination of keys ( simple bruteforce ) would take 2 < sup > k · j </ sup > attempts if j encryptions has been used with different keys in each encryption, where each key is k bits long.

It was not long after the New Radicals ' success that Alexander became tired of the constant media attention and exhaustive touring schedule.

Zome is long, and an exhaustive list is not forthcoming.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

Go a step further and list all the wonderful barbecue basics -- cervelat, salami, Vienna sausages, mettwurst, bratwurst, bockwurst, knackwurst, Bologna, pepperoni, blutwurst -- and you have a long list of easy specialties.

and they should be given priority in the basic list as long as they continue to show these qualities.

In the city, he said, the waiting list for those who want to join the union is so long that unless a boy has an inside track he can't get in.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

In the long list of the disciples given in the Anguttara Nikaya ( i. xiv.

* The program was stored as a linked list of lines ; a or took O ( n ) ( linear ) time, and although Applesoft programs were not very long compared to today's software, on a 1 MHz 6502 this could be a significant bottleneck.

Chinese government agencies entered characters using a long, complicated list of Chinese telegraph codes, which assigned different numbers to each character.

Many Jews view Jesus as one in a long list of failed Jewish claimants to be the Messiah, none of whom fulfilled the tests of a prophet specified in the Law of Moses.

After a long list of works written earlier in his career, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls, the Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus.

These include psychometry ( establishing the history of an object ), slate writing ( common in Victorian times ), extras appearing in photographs ( seemingly no more ; possibly since the advent of compound camera lenses using plastic as well as quartz-glass ) and a long list of other curiosities.

In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

* Gates of Heaven ( 1978 ) has long been on Roger Ebert's list of the ten greatest films ever made.

ExxonMobil, the oil major, has been accused by Friends of the Earth and others of giving millions of dollars to a long list of think-tanks and lobbyists opposed to Kyoto.

The Committee first attempted to set the price for only a limited number of grain products but, by September 1793, it expanded the " maximum " to cover all foodstuffs and a long list of other goods.

Though Guam is a United States territory, some U. S. long distance plans and courier services list Guam as an international location.

Louis Bolk made a long list of such traits, and Stephen Jay Gould published a short list in Ontogeny and Phylogeny.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

It begins with a prohibition on all slaughter of animals outside the Temple, even for food, and then prohibits a long list of sexual contacts and also child sacrifice.

Judith Oliver noted five Merovingian female saints in the diocese of Liège who appeared in a long list of saints in a late 13th-century psalter-hours.

The Government of Namibia is making efforts to take advantage of the American-led African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), which will provide preferential access to American markets for a long list of products.

See the external link for a list of Church services in English ( link from the official site is obsolete and not being updated for long ).

The long waiting list for fixed line telephones helped in a boom in mobile cellular telephone use and all mobile phone operators in Poland use GSM.