Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Would you permit Juanita to walk about the grounds with me for a short spell, Mrs. Lattimer ''??

From here is it a short walk to the Silver Sands, Aberdour's busiest and most popular beach.

It is a short walk from there to New York University near Washington Square Park, which is at the foot of Fifth Avenue.

Its habitual gait is quadrupedal, using the soles of its feet and resting on its knuckles, but it can walk upright for short distances.

He lived in a suite in the Chateau Laurier hotel, a short walk from Parliament Hill.

Visitors are no longer permitted to touch the stones, but are able to walk around the monument from a short distance away.

Schoen said, " The entire room was astonished to see this short little man with a big chest walk in and listen to our session.

While the capacity to walk upright is not unique to humans, other primates can only achieve this for short periods and at a great expenditure of energy.

St Cuthbert's Society, a college of Durham University, is named after him and is located only a short walk from the coffin of the saint at Durham Cathedral.

Their legs and feet are weak and short, and trogons are essentially unable to walk beyond a very occasional shuffle along a branch.

Some of the actors, when not playing their characters, earn their money through different jobs altogether: Charlotte Connor, when not playing Susan Carter ( credited as Charlotte Martin ), works full-time as a senior research psychologist at the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation ; her office is a short walk from BBC Birmingham and thus is able to fit it around recordings.

In 1953 Kjell Askildsen debuted with the short story collection Heretter følger jeg deg helt hjem ( From now on I'll walk you all the way home ).

Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, and short, thick hair.

In 2006, the Faculties of History and Geography and the Faculty of Philosophy were moved from the Pedralbes Campus to the historic centre of the city ( Ciutat Vella district ), in the El Raval neighborhood, and just a short walk from the Historic Building of the University.

A short walk from Echo Point leads to The Giant Stairway which provides access to a number of nature walks through the Valley.

Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres.

Clerkenwell's tradition of left-leaning publication continued until late 2008 with The Guardian and The Observer having their headquarters on Farringdon Road, a short walk from the Green.

Crayford railway station is just a short walk from the high street.

Residents in North Deptford are within a short walk of both Surrey Quays station and Canada Water tube station, although they are just over the border in Southwark.

Erith railway station is only a short walk from the town centre.

Croydon's Tram system is also just a short walk away, which links to places such as Wimbledon.

From there it is a short walk to the village, with a large pub, the Lion Inn, and a small shop.

On Aldeburgh's beach, a short distance north of the town centre, stands a sculpture, The Scallop, dedicated to Benjamin Britten, who used to walk along the beach in the afternoons.

Snowing, but within walking distance of Sancious ' mother's home, the band decided to walk the short distance.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Long-lived carbon-14 from the fusion process would cause four million embryonic, neonatal or childhood deaths and stillbirths over the next 20 generations, and between 200,000 and one million human beings now living would have their lives cut short by radiation-produced diseases such as leukemia.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.

In the relatively short time since these early observations, Venus has been observed at additional wave lengths in the range from 0.8 to 10.2 cm, and Jupiter has been observed over the wave-length range from 3.03 to 68 Aj.

Second, the upper portion permits comparison of maturity levels of an equal number of growth centers from the long, short, and round bones of the five regions.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

I took a short swallow from it myself and handed it to him.

When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

As a short, possibly not the best method, I looked up `` Word '' in the Concordance and noted that the Bible claims from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 to be God's personal message to man.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

In most salamanders, the limbs are short and more or less the same length and project at right angles from the body.

One Nepōhualtzintzin ( 91 ) represented the number of days that a season of the year lasts, two Nepōhualtzitzin ( 182 ) is the number of days of the corn's cycle, from its sowing to its harvest, three Nepōhualtzintzin ( 273 ) is the number of days of a baby's gestation, and four Nepōhualtzintzin ( 364 ) completed a cycle and approximate a year ( 1 days short ).

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

Fear is defined as short lived, present focused, geared towards a specific threat, and facilitating escape from threat ; while anxiety is defined as long acting, future focused, broadly focused towards a diffuse threat, and promoting caution while approaching a potential threat.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

* 1936 Love from a Stranger ( dramatised by Frank Vosper from the short story Philomel Cottage )

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

An abbreviation ( from Latin brevis, meaning short ) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.