Most of my stories were obtained by simply seeking out the person who could give me the facts, and not as a rule by playing clever tricks.

Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.

One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.

Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

Any person who makes application for any such payment shall be held to have consented to all the provisions of this Title.

If you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

In fact, his only disciple -- the only person to imitate his style -- was W. S. Graham, who seems to have imitated him without much understanding, and who has since moved on to other methods.

So far in history man has been too greatly over-occupied with projecting things into his environment rather than first creating the sort of person who can make the highest use of the things he has created.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The person who left the buggy there has never been identified.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

the first use of the word `` rustler '' was as a synonym for `` hustler '', becomin' an established term for any person who was active, pushin', and bustlin' in any enterprise.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

Lucien is not the only person in this house who could have put opium in that coffee.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

`` A person with a master's degree in physics, chemistry, math or English, yet who has not taken Education courses, is not permitted to teach in the public schools '', said Grover.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

* Aviator, a person who flies an aircraft

When the person jumps, the cord stretches and the jumper flies upwards again as the cord recoils, and continues to oscillate up and down until all the energy is dissipated.

There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon ; an austringer ( German origin ) flies a hawk ( Accipiter and some buteos and similar ) or an eagle ( Aquila or similar ).

The symptoms of leishmaniasis are skin sores which erupt weeks to months after the person affected is bitten by sand flies.

Cayce flies to Moscow to meet Stella in person and watch Nora work.

It is north-of-the-border magical realism — Alice flies, she becomes invisible, she is another person.

Inter 2: Three people stay connected, and do a 360 turn, while the last person, flies alone.

* April 5 – To protest the lack of an aerial display to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force four days earlier and to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Flight Lieutenant Alan Pollock of the RAFs No. 1 ( F ) Squadron makes an unauthorised display flight in a Hawker Hunter during which he " beats up " ( i. e., buzzes ) several RAF airfields and flies low over London, where circles the Houses of Parliament, dips his wings to the Royal Air Force Memorial, and flies under the top span of Tower Bridge, becoming the first person to fly under the bridges upper span in a jet aircraft.

Krystal flies to Great Fox to thank the team, particularly Fox, in person, subsequently joining the team.

The poem concerns the retirement of a well-traveled ship ; Catullus draws a strong analogy with human aging, rendering the boat as a person that flies and speaks, with palms ( the oars ) and purpose.

A leash should always be fastened securely to the person holding the leash ( such as by an elastic band around the wrist ) to avoid the possibility of dropping the leash, as a dropped leash may become entangled in a tree or other object if a parrot flies off.

The title derives from falconry jargon for a person who flies a short-wing hawk.

Handicaps can also be personal ( sometimes called a back-calculated yardstick ), taking into account the results of the sailor over past races, so an inexperienced person who sails significantly better than previously over a season or regatta can win on handicap.

* Grinder ( yachting ), a person whose job on a boat is to manually power the winches used to hoist and trim sails

It was the kind of frame that is only put around the photograph of a dead person.

As she reached Dave and felt his arm go around her, felt him pull her to the safety of his person, she knew with the certainty of despair that something bad had happened to Lauren.

# Bank doesn't have enough shares to allow everyone to trade in their shares-first choice falls to person causing the merger, followed by other players in order around the table in the order of play.

Antidepressants have the possibility of making one person less prone to harm other people around him or her.

He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.

Most cycle deaths result from a collision with a car or heavy goods vehicle, both motorist and cyclist having been found responsible for collisions However, around a fifth of non-fatal injuries to cyclists do not involve any other person or vehicle.

For example, the highly anticipated first person shooter Quake used highly-optimized assembly code designed almost entirely around the P5 Pentium's FPU.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

If the ideological approach is concerned with broad movements and the effects of the world around the filmmaker, then the auteur theory is diametrically opposed to it, celebrating the individual, usually in the person of the filmmaker, and how his personal decisions, thoughts, and style manifest themselves in the material.

Though most arachnids are harmless, a person with arachnophobia may still panic or feel uneasy around one.

However, Madero argued that this was counterbalanced by the dramatic loss of freedom, including the brutal treatment of the Yaqui people, the repression of workers in Cananea, excessive concessions to the United States, and an unhealthy centralization of politics around the person of the president.

The time it would take to write such a number also renders the task implausible: if a person can write two digits per second, it would take around about 1. 51 years, which is about 1. 1 times the age of the universe, to write a googolplex.

" Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote (" uneducated or ignorant person ").

It is open to all who want to participate, and holds discussions on an open mailing list or at IETF meetings, where the entry fee is currently around USD $ 650 per person.

IPv4 allows for only 4, 294, 967, 296 unique addresses worldwide ( or less than one address per person alive in 2012 ), but IPv6 allows for around addresses per person — a number unlikely ever to run out.

The Mental Health ( Care and Treatment ) Act was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him.

* 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

* 1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.

alt = A black man with his arm around a black boy speaks into a microphone held by a person out of view.

However, she was such a good person that the animals living around the temple began to help her with her chores.

The coronal discharges identified as Kirlian auras are the result of stochastic electric ionization processes, and are greatly affected by many factors, including the voltage and frequency of the stimulus, the pressure with which a person or object touches the imaging surface, the local humidity around the object being imaged, how well grounded the person or object is, and other local factors affecting the conductivity of the person or object being imaged.