On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

It was unusual among school voucher proposals in that it required neither accreditation on the part of schools accepting vouchers, nor proof of need on the part of families applying for them ; neither did it have any requirement that schools accept vouchers as payment-in-full, nor any other provision to guarantee a reduction in the real cost of private school tuition.

An unusual multi-sided tower, the Oriel, provides a counterpoint to the main doorway of the hall and was intended for private entertainment by Gaunt away from the main festivities on major occasions.

A hallmark of the stories is that Perry Mason ( with the assistance of his devoted secretary Della Street and his faithful private investigator Paul Drake ), once embarked on a case, will juggle the evidence using unusual ( even bizarre ) tactics to mislead the police -- but ( except for the very earliest novels ) always in an ethical fashion:

Such specially-commissioned private performances were not unusual for Shakespeare's company.

TTL was a private company with an unusual form of governance.

Its Classic Revival style, fashionable for private residences in the Bay Area at the time, was unusual for naval base housing.

The appointment was unusual in that Nelsons had not conducted the CBSO publicly prior to his appointment, but only in a private concert and in a recording session.

The basilica is home to a large and very fine pipe organ built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll for a private home in Biarritz, composed of 109 ranks and 78 speaking stops spread across four 61-note manuals and the 32-note pedalboard ( unusual before the turn of the century ; the standard of the day was 56 and 30 ), spread across three expressive divisions ( also unusual for the time, even in large organs ); the organ was ahead of its time, containing multiple expressive divisions and giving the performer considerable advantages over other even larger instruments of the day.

This unusual protection of private schools was implemented to protect these schools from a second Gleichschaltung or similar event in the future.

In the Republic of Ireland, private schools () are unusual due to the fact that a certain number of teacher's salaries are paid by the State.

Daito Bunka is a little unusual in not having a single ' founder ', or a dominant leader, founding family, or religious affiliation, all of which are common among Japanese private universities.

In the United States, hiking access to true wilderness areas is discouraged, and the property owner controls access to private lands, with exceptions for beach access and other easement rights that can be negotiated between government entities and owners to allow access to lands of unusual merit.

Collected by ' Woodward and Bernstein ' via e-mails from private sources amongst both mag readers and football insiders, and also from the Red Issue forum's Sanctuary section, it's not unusual for a story to appear here before any tabloid newspapers pick up on it.

There is an unusual bridge close to Hampton Loade: a small private roadway is suspended below two large waterpipe arches.

The TCPA is unusual in that the language creating a private right of action led to conflicting views on whether the federal courts had federal question subject matter jurisdiction.

The tour was unusual in that Moraz booked everything himself, and for a flat fee of $ 800 would come to your home, club or other venue, and play a private or semi-private solo piano concert.

Always attracted by unusual and challenging subjects, she has most recently published the life of a thirties film star, Virginia Cherrill, basing her work upon a substantial archive in private ownership.

The A419 is unusual in that it is managed and maintained by a private company, Road Management Group, on behalf of the UK Department for Transport.

The school was an unusual private school for its times: it was relatively affordable and not Catholic.

The Institute is unusual as the miners themselves built it, borrowing the money through a private mortgage.

She attributes this outburst to the unusual requirement on the show to voice one's private thoughts and to soliloquize in a " confessional booth ".

Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander.

An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

Their first obstacle was the unusual shape of the building site, a trapezoid of land at the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues.

The reason for the Japanese name " harbor wave " is that sometimes a village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves while out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastated by a huge wave.

Usually it is the more widely spread species that fare better in extinction, and hence this unusual pattern could be explained by a GRB, which would probably devastate creatures living on land and near the ocean surface, but leave deep-sea creatures relatively unharmed.

The geography of the European part of Netherlands is unusual in that much of its land has been reclaimed from the sea and is below sea level, protected by dikes.

It is a headland and unusual amongst the National Park's features as it is not joined to the rest of the Park by land but separated by 1 kilometer of water, the Pittwater.

In central New South Wales where there are large plains of grassland, problems have risen from — unusual to say — lack of land clearing.

The Drinkards owned a substantial amount of farmland during a time when it was unusual for blacks to own large portions of land.

The township is unusual in that it consists of five noncontiguous tracts of land: one on the west side of Lansing, three on the east side between Lansing and East Lansing, and one on the southeast side of Lansing.

Four Oaks was named by Colonel R. R. Bridgers in 1886 for an unusual sight that graced the land upon which he found himself.

Although several famous admirals of the day had previously been army commanders, including Blake and Monk, they had commanded relatively small land forces and Rupert was still relatively unusual for the period in having both practical experience of commanding large land armies and having extensive naval experience from his campaigns in the 1650s.

Again, in some land snails, an unusual feature of the reproductive system of gastropods is the presence and utilization of love darts.

" protections against " cruel and unusual punishments ", baseless search and seizure, and the guarantees of a trial by jury, freedom of the press, freedom of religion (" all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion "), and " the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state " rested in a well regulated militia composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, that standing armies in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty ; Article 8 protects a person against " being deprived of his liberty except by the law of the land " which later evolved into the due process clause in the federal Bill of Rights.

In return for the unusual privilege of exemption from tributum ( direct taxes on land and heads that most peregrini were subject to ), they supplied a disproportionate number of recruits to the Julio-Claudian auxilia: one ala and 8 cohortes.

The group also had an unusual degree of freedom to move over their neighbours ' land, possibly due to kinship and marriage ties with neighbouring groups.

The Shiji relates that " the emperor learned of the Dayuan, Daxia, Anxi, and the others, all great states rich in unusual products whose people cultivated the land and made their living in much the same way as the Chinese.

The flag is unusual for a British overseas territory in that it is used on land in a red ensign form.

An unusual clause in the 1664 colonial land grant that outlined the territory the proprietors of New Jersey would receive reads: " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river " rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

It is unusual for a sampan to sail far from land as they do not have the means to survive rough weather.

Their positions were unusual as their stipends were paid partly by the colonial government and some ( Marsden among them ) received large grants of land from the governor of the colony.

The 13. 2x92mm ( 0. 538 in ) cartridge was not unusual either, some 0. 50 in firearms having been fielded in land warfare with the relatively new and more powerful ( as compared to black powder ) smokeless powders of the era.