" In this second revision, the solution is to abandon the participial clause by transforming the participle " leaping " into the verb " leaped " in the dependent clause " As he leaped into the saddle.

He leaped over an outfield wall in pursuit of a ball and he scored from second on a wild pitch.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

So, all in all, the infield can't be expected to supply the added improvement to propel the Birds from second to first.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Big Hans began pouring whisky in the kid's mouth but his mouth filled without any getting down his throat and in a second it was dripping from his chin.

and second, to increase uniformly the allotments to those States whose allotments are below their maximums, with adjustments to prevent the allotment of any State from thereby exceeding its maximum.

On the second occasion it took prayers as well as reason to dissuade the soldiers from their purpose.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

This second conclusion, independently arrived at by independent study of material from two pairs of language families as different and remote from one another as these four are, cannot be ignored.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

The average annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the Sixties is still considerably below the annual rate of 1,525,000 in the three-year period from April 1947 to March 1950.

The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

The second step in processing was to compare the responses from companies on the AIA list with those from companies on the TR list in order to determine whether it would be appropriate to merge the responses for the purposes of the study.

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

Australites ( tektites from Australia ) give the appearance of a second melting.

the next a headless horror on a horse that bolted through the redcoat ranks, and during the next second or two, we all of us fired into the suddenly disorganized column of soldiers.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

They were 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, taking pictures at one thousandth of a second.

An Equestrian ( Latin, from eques " horseman ", from equus " horse ") was a member of the second highest social class in the Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.

In 1930, when Gallant Fox became the second horse to win all three races, sportswriter Charles Hatton brought the phrase into American usage.

* The Preakness Stakes is run, second jewel in the triple crown of horse racing.

This animated cartoon of a Horse gait | galloping horse is displayed at 12 drawings per second, and the fast motion is on the edge of being objectionably jerky.

Its second part has also been hypothesized to come from the Old Norse word for ' horse '.

So a horse may jump " A " and " B " without issue, but have a refusal at the third fence ( C ), at which time the rider would have to circle and return to jump fence " A " again, giving the horse a second chance to refuse or knock down " A " and " B ".

The Red Mile Harness Track is the oldest horse racing track in the city, and second oldest in the nation.

The new rules permitted new candidates to enter the ballot in a second round of voting should the first be inconclusive, so Thatcher's challenge was considered by some to be that of a stalking horse.

It was also the second European and the first city in what is now Romania with horse drawn trams in 1867.

In the list of " Greatest Sports Performances " ( by individual athletes ), the horse was the only nonhuman on the list, with his run at Belmont ranking second behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game.

# The second chapter is devoted to the fauna of this world, depicting many animals that are surreal variations of the horse, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, birds, etc.

The second battle consisted of the Italian mercenaries, about 1, 000, and 300 Saracen light horse, commanded by his uncle Galvano Lancia.

In a bet to place, you are betting on your horse to finish either first, second, and / or third, depending on how many horses are in the race ; for example, in a race with 5 horses a place bet would only be for first and second place, but in a race with 10 horses you bet on your horse to finish first, second, or third.

A bet to show wins if the horse finishes first, second or third.

Since it is much easier to select a horse to finish first, second or third than it is to select a horse just for first, the show payoffs will be much lower on average than win payoffs.