Almost too smoothly, I found myself thinking, and then told myself that was ridiculous.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Almost all his men are dead and Roland knows that it's now too late for Charlemagne and his troops to save them, but he blows his oliphant anyway, so that the emperor can see what happened to his men and avenge them.

Almost all business jets have rear-mounted engines, because the wing ( mounted low for performance reasons ) is too near the ground for engines to be slung underneath it.

Almost immediately, the New Jersey Republican Party challenged the replacing of Torricelli with Lautenberg, citing that the timing was too close to the election and, per New Jersey law, the change could not be allowed.

* Almost too human and lifelike for comfort-research journal for an uncanny valley PhD project

Almost immediately after its 1987 opening, it was considered antiquated: too small, somewhat inaccessible, and unable to expand.

Almost Heroes goes thud too.

Almost immediately, the explicitly Zionist Berihah became the main conduit for Jews coming to Palestine, especially from the displaced person camps, and it initially had to turn people away due to too much demand.

Gittings later wrote, " Almost too stunned to respond, I offered Gen. Zhu a chance to back down — or at least qualify the circumstances under which China would unleash its nuclear missiles against ' hundreds of, or two hundreds ' of American cities.

Almost daily the Afridis, too wise to risk general engagements, waged a perpetual guerrilla warfare, and the various bodies of troops engaged in foraging or survey duties were constantly attacked.

Almost immediately, Constans was required to deal with a Sarmatian invasion in late 337, over whom he won a resounding victory.

Almost nothing is known of the histories of the other four Houses, except that they each sent a contingent west to fight in The War of the Dwarves and Orcs in the late Third Age, and their names:

Almost all them closed in the late 19th or 20th century.

Almost two hours of resistance later, England took a 106-run win late in day.

Almost all of The Tonight Show with Jack Paar and the first ten years hosted by his successor Johnny Carson were taped over by the network, which is why Carson's late 1960s shows looked muddy compared to his competitor Dick Cavett on ABC ; NBC was using the Tonight Show tapes repeatedly.

Almost every locale has at least one matsuri in late summer / early autumn, usually related to the rice harvest.

Almost all shopping centres in Melbourne now trade late on both Thursdays and Fridays as well as being open longer hours on Sundays.

Almost 400 of Columbia's 529 two-reel comedies were released to television in the late 1950s ; to date, only the Stooges, Keaton, and short films starring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Joe DeRita have been released to home video.

Almost all shark experts feel that the danger presented by sharks has been exaggerated, and even the creator of the Jaws phenomenon, the late Peter Benchley, attempted to dispel the myth of sharks being man-eating monsters in the years before his death.

Almost certainly, the aircraft is not where the pilot thinks it should be, and the response to a GPWS warning can be late in these circumstances.

Almost two years later, WMATA broke ground on the Suitland, Naylor Road, Southern Avenue, and Congress Heights stations, a $ 900 million project which would complete the final 6. 5 miles ( 10. 5 km ) of the originally-planned 103-mile ( 165. 7 km ) Metrorail system in late 1999.

Almost unheard of as late as the 1990s, vapor barriers are becoming increasingly popular in recent years, in fact, the more general topic of conditioned vs. unconditioned crawl spaces has enjoyed much research over the last decade.

Almost all Super Sentai shows were broadcasted in Thailand since the 1980s ; there, most new shows were exclusively broadcast on Channel 9 a year late from its Japanese debut in the late 1980s to early 1990s until Power Rangers replaced Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger in the mid 1990s.

Almost all surviving churches were built by the Byzantines and by the Bulgarians, the rest of them date back to the short time of Serbian rule during the late Middle Ages.

Ward won a CableACE Award for her portrayal of the late television journalist Jessica Savitch in the 1995 TV movie Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.

Almost all patients develop oliguria or anuria within a few hours to as late as 6 days post bite.

Almost all the Talbots sold during the late 1940s came with Talbot bodies, constructed in the manufacturer's extensive workshops.

Almost any fossil-bearing limestone or shale from inland seas of the late Paleozoic tropics or subtropics is likely to yield some goniatites.

Almost the entire block was rebuilt in the mid to late 20th Century in more modern style.

Almost all use the late Renaissance idiom of Lassus, with carefully controlled dissonance and smoothly flowing polyphony.

Almost all of the core skiboarding companies that started up in the mid to late 90s were now gone.

Almost in tandem with grunge's receding vogue, and the increasing popularity of alternative rock, nu-metal, rap rock, rap music and boy bands, MTV's Headbangers Ball ( which had showcased music videos of many Bay Area thrash groups in the late 1980s and early 1990s ) would be taken off the air in 1995, limiting U. S. output of thrash ( in addition to associated metal subgenres like death and black metal ) to outlets such as radio shows, carrier current, mailorder, word of mouth or the internet.

Almost three years later, upon the death of Bob Hope, the late Canby's byline appeared on the front page of the New York Times.

Almost 11 years to the day of Dana Plato's death, on May 6, 2010, Plato's son Tyler Lambert died at age 25 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Almost two years later, Marc Antony added to the notoriety of the Rostra by publicly displaying the severed head and right hand of his enemy Cicero there.

Mullen left Enjoi to head Almost Skateboards with Daewon Song, the company which he still helms and skates for.

Almost all inline ( straight ) engines today use a single cylinder head that serves all the cylinders.

Almost immediately afterwards ( within less than a day ) the Pentagon announced the cancellation of PAM, and by the end of the week John Poindexter, head of the DARPA unit responsible for developing it, had offered his resignation ; the PAM had first been proposed & funded in 2001, and Poindexter joined DARPA in December 2002.

Almost all will bathe with the head uncovered, but sleeping varies by community or family practice.

Almost all Conservative synagogues require men to wear a head covering ( usually a kippah ), but in Reform synagogues there is often no requirement.

Almost every part of the fish ( except scales, fins and innards ) is eaten ; unlike other regions the head is particularly preferred.

In the play " Almost, Maine " by John Cariani, the vignette " This Hurts " is about a man with Congenital Analgesia, or " Hereditary Sensory Neuropathy Type 4 ", who is clocked in the head with an ironing board, and in the end feels the pain of love.

Almost immediately after retiring, he was named the Blues ' head coach.

Almost all vipers have keeled scales, a stocky build with a short tail, and, due to the location of the venom glands, a triangular-shaped head distinct from the neck.

Almost all their new jazz recordings were produced by Keepnews, who served as creative head of the label ( and several subsidiaries, most notably Jazzland Records ), with Grauer directing the company's sales and business operations.

Almost his entire body was destroyed, but his head still remained.