Abel was physically small, tall and slimly built.

Abel Owen is generally believed to have been the first man to enter the rather unattractive mountain wilderness and build himself a home.

This theory would make the names descriptions of their roles, where Abel works with livestock, and Cain with agriculture — and would parallel the names Adam (" man ") and Eve (" life ", Chavah in Hebrew ).

In A Time for Everything ( 2004 ) by Karl Ove Knausgård, the story of Cain and Abel is retold with a focus on Cain-an introvert and troubled man who gets the reader's sympathy.

It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel.

The readings at Matins for this week are the first few chapters of Genesis, telling of the creation of the world, of Adam and Eve, the fall of man and resulting expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and the story of Cain and Abel.

Shortly after this, Abel was driven to the house and entrusted as its caretaker by a man who revealed himself to be an aspect of the House's existence, but making vague references to an employer.

Like the Biblical Cain he is a powerful, left-handed man with red hair, said to have killed ( strangled ) his brother Abel, and has been cursed by a mad god with an eternal life of wandering.

Veronica discovers new evidence which suggests that Abel Koontz, the man imprisoned after confessing to Lilly's murder, is innocent.

Rescued by Petyr Van Abel ( blonde haired, grey eyed ) because people assume that Deborah will turn out just like her mother, twelve-year-old Deborah quietly falls in love with and later seduces her rescuer the evening before her marriage to another man.

Bandini was the daughter of Juan Bandini, a prominent and wealthy early Californian, and was the widow of Abel Stearns, once the richest man in Los Angeles.

" That this did not allude to the subjection of woman to man is manifest, because the same mode of expression is used in speaking to Cain of Abel.

As her father clears Abel Koontz ( the man convicted of murdering Lilly ) of the murder, Veronica convinces Sheriff Lamb to arrest Logan for Lilly's death.

Quakerism came to Bolivia in 1919 through a Navajo man, William Abel, who sold Bibles and preached in the capital city of La Paz.

Abel, a young man of wealth, fails at a revolution and flees Caracas into the uncharted forests of Guyana.

Abel awakens in the hut of Nuflo, an old man who protects his " granddaughter " Rima, and won't reveal her origin.

However, Abel befriends a man named Ben Benally from a reservation in New Mexico and develops an intimate relationship with Milly, a kind, blonde social worker.

Mostaert's portrait work of this earlier period includes a piece entitled " Portrait of Abel van den Coulster " ( c. 1500-10 ), in which an elegant, thin-faced man is situated in equally elegant surroundings.

Doc Abel was busy up front with some of his live patients.

Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; ;

By his second season, Howe was paired with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay to form what would become one of the great lines in NHL history – the " Production Line ".

After being upset by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup in 1952, sweeping both the Leafs and the Canadiens, with the Production Line of Howe, Abel and Lindsay joined by second-year goalie Terry Sawchuk.

The theory of field extensions ( including Galois theory ) involves the roots of polynomials with coefficients in a field ; among other results, this theory leads to impossibility proofs for the classical problems of angle trisection and squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge, as well as a proof of the Abel – Ruffini theorem on the algebraic insolubility of quintic equations.

The use of anamorphic ( in the general sense of distorted shape ) images first appears in these years with Abel Gance's la Folie du Docteur Tube ( The Madness of Dr. Tube ).

He also dominated French Impressionist Cinema, along with Abel Gance, Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein.

In 1818, Søren Abel had a public theological argument with Stener Johannes Stenersen regarding his catechism from 1806.

At his funeral, with the rectory full of guests, the widow Anne Marie Abel got drunk and went openly to bed with one of the servants.

Bernt Michael Holmboe supported Niels Henrik Abel with a scholarship to remain at the school and raised money from his friends to enable him to study at the Royal Frederick University.

" Abel said famously of Carl Friedrich Gauss's writing style, “ He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail .”

Led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, it endured as an unrecognized state under white rule for the next 14 years, with majority rule coming in 1979 with the Internal Settlement between Smith's government and moderate black nationalists, the associated multiracial elections and the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe Rhodesia, with Bishop Abel Muzorewa at the helm of a coalition cabinet comprising 12 blacks and five whites.

The rupee traded at an average 19. 97 per euro by noon in the capital Victoria, compared with 11. 3421 last week, according to Caroline Abel, head of monetary analysis and statistics at the Central Bank of Seychelles.

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of the Composer Carl Friedrich Abel with his Viola da Gamba ( c. 1765 )

Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name ( and its homophonic connection to " demon "), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman.

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel, composer and viol master — German-born but residing in England most of his life — posed with his viola da gamba.

Widescreen was first widely used in the late 1920s in some short films and newsreels, including Abel Gance's film Napoleon ( 1927 ) with a final widescreen sequence in what Gance called Polyvision.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

Abel was sentenced to " be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before your eyes, your head smitten off, your body to be quartered at the King's will, and God have mercy on your soul.

* Karl Edward Wagner's character Kane is described as one of the first humans, cursed to immortality and wandering after murdering his brother Abel, and to be immediately recognizable by his " murderer's eyes.

In the anime series, they all take different forms: Cain appears as an angel with white wings, even though he is the antagonist, whereas Abel appears slightly demonic with black wings and red eyes, while being the protagonist.

He also had an affair with Lucia's brother Diego, which ended when Diego got involved with Abel, his baby son's nanny.

The exterior is dominated by the clock tower which rises to 87 metres ( 285 feet ) and houses Great Abel, the clock bell.

He worked with Sir Frederick Abel on improving the properties of black powder, making it burn more slowly to produce more gas and a more consistent pressure, with the result that he was able to increase muzzle velocities from 1600 to 2100 feet per second, while the energy developed increased by about 75 %.