This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

He held his long clenched foot in both hands, and this and his contorted face -- he was trying heroically not to cry out -- made him look like a large skinny old monkey.

His demands were certainly grand: the concession of a block of territory 200 miles long by 150 wide between the Danube and the Gulf of Venice ( to be held probably on some terms of nominal dependence on the Empire ) and the title of commander-in-chief of the imperial army.

York and Worcester had long had close ties, and the two sees had often been held in plurality, or at the same time.

Some contact adhesives require as long as 24 hours to dry before the surfaces are to be held together.

* Joshua and the Israelites were able to defeat the people at Ai because Joshua followed the divine instruction to extend his sword ( Josh 8: 18 ), just as the people were able to defeat the Amalekites as long as Moses extended his hand that held " the staff of God " ( Ex.

Basel has long held an important place as a rail hub.

After a long delay, elections were finally held in 2010.

The comics have long held a distorted mirror to contemporary society, and almost from the beginning have been used for political or social commentary.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

Further east, the military history of China, specifically northern China, held a long tradition of intense military exchange between Han Chinese infantry forces of the settled dynastic empires and the mounted nomads or " barbarians " of the north.

Massed English longbowmen triumphed over French cavalry at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, while at Gisors ( 1188 ), Bannockburn ( 1314 ), and Laupen ( 1339 ), foot-soldiers proved their invulnerability to cavalry charges as long as they held their formation.

The governing body of the CPSU was the Party Congress which was held once in 1 – 5 years, depending on the historical period, with an exception of a long break from 1939 to 1952.

Unlike in a piano action, the tangent does not rebound from the string ; rather, it stays in contact with the string as long as the key is held, acting as both the nut and as the initiator of sound.

The Christadelphian distinction between representation and substitution has been noted in the relevant scholarly literature, and representative participation ( an interpretation long held by Christadelphians ) is widely considered the original Biblical teaching on the atonement.

In Japan, there appears to have been what probably constituted a long held ' official ' company bias against use of the name " Datsun ".

Other common signifying footwear of the dominatrix are thigh-high boots, in leather or shiny PVC, which have long held a fetishistic status, along with the very high stiletto heel.

An upright bassist auditioning for a blues band might be asked to play in a Swing-style walking bassline, a rockabilly-style " slapping " bassline ( in which the strings are percussively struck against the fingerboard ) and a 1950s ballad with long held notes.

For instance, Freeze Arrows ( introduced in DDRMAX ) which is a long green arrow that must be held down until the tail of it reaches the Step Zone, that is given an " O. K .!

Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.

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

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

Matt Cartmill presents another problem with the Gigantopithecus hypothesis: " The trouble with this account is that Gigantopithecus was not a hominin and maybe not even a crown-group hominoid ; yet the physical evidence implies that Bigfoot is an upright biped with buttocks and a long, stout, permanently adducted hallux.

The other main theory, the sexual selection hypothesis, proposes that the long necks evolved as a secondary sexual characteristic, giving males an advantage in " necking " contests ( see below ) to establish dominance and obtain access to sexually receptive females.

Another hypothesis for the thick body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a role ( as well as in the selection of long head hair ), ( see types of hair and vellus hair ), as well as a much larger role of testosterone in men.

The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).

For example, mammal-eating killer whales were long thought likely to be closely related to other mammal-eating killer whales from different regions, but genetic testing refuted this hypothesis.

This hypothesis has long been disproved, since it seems that macaroni was already used in Italy at least a century before, like pasta in general ; Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi who lived in Sicily, witnessed the existence of macaroni in Sicily and in particular in Trabia.

The dineutron hypothesis had been used in nuclear reactions with exotic nuclei for a long time.

The most widely accepted hypothesis is that the Oort cloud's objects initially coalesced much closer to the Sun as part of the same process that formed the planets and asteroids, but that gravitational interaction with young gas giant planets such as Jupiter ejected the objects into extremely long elliptic or parabolic orbits.

Wind tunnel tests showed that the crest did function as an effective counterbalance to a degree, but Bennett noted that again, the hypothesis focuses only on the long crests of male P. longiceps, not on the larger crests of P. sternbergi and very small crests that existed among the females.

The long accepted " competing browser's hypothesis " by Charles Darwin is now being put into question.

These findings are also difficult to explain for the decay hypothesis, because decay of memory representations should depend only on how long the processing task delays rehearsal or recall, not on the content of the processing task.

: Without hoping to know whether each separate hypothesis is true or false, we may search for rules to govern our behaviour with regard to them, in following which we insure that, in the long run of experience, we shall not be too often wrong.

However, using the ergodic hypothesis, the temperature can still be obtained to arbitrary precision by further averaging the momenta over a long enough time.

Like all intermediate filaments, keratin proteins form filamentous polymers in a series of assembly steps beginning with dimerization ; dimers assemble into tetramers and octamers and eventually, the current hypothesis holds, into unit-length-filaments ( ULF ) capable of annealing end-to-end into long filaments.

The hypothesis that the prohibition of drugs generates violence is consistent with research done over long time-series and cross-country facts.

An alternative explanation to the hypothesis that long telomeres are selected against due to their cancer promoting effects is the " thrifty telomere " hypothesis that suggests that the cellular proliferation effects of longer telomeres causes increased energy expenditures.

The " Hugues hypothesis " argues that the name can be accounted for by connection with Hugues Capet king of France, who reigned long before the Reform times.

What gives some colour of truth to this hypothesis that we already put forth, is the fact that the French or Franks, before entering Gaul itself, lived for a long time around the river named Luts in the Netherlands.

The template-matching hypothesis suggests that incoming stimuli are compared with templates in the long term memory.

For a long time, the local police supported the hypothesis that her mother Patsy Ramsey injured her child in a fit of rage after the girl had wet her bed on the same night, and then proceeded to kill her either in rage or to cover up the original injury.

A speed " date " lasting several minutes should be long enough for the MHC hypothesis to come into play, provided the participants are seated close enough together.