This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.

Although they journeyed westerly as far as Germantown, beyond the Erie roundhouse and the machine shop, and along the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and northward to Brooklyn, below Point Peter, he could see the church spire wherever he looked back.

He paced forward unsteadily, leaning too far back, his head tilted oddly.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.

and moreover, he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical Cubism as far back as the end of 1910.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

All this emphasis on Centrality and on the number 5 as a symbolic expression of the Center, which seems to have begun as far back as 400 B.C., also may conceivably have led to the development of the Five-Elements School and the subsequent efforts to fit everything into numerical categories of five.

Beginning at least as far back as 1789 various Baptist bodies condemned slavery.

Hurricane Carla damaged 70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as Port Isabel on the Mexican border.

In looking as far back as Moses, thence to Cromwell, Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, and Nehru, Montgomery attempts to trace the stirrings and qualities of great men.

The cynicism was back in her eyes, a bitter wisdom, and I wondered if forty were not so far wrong after all.

A tablet found on the Greek island Salamis in 1846 AD dates back to 300 BC, making it the oldest counting board discovered so far.

Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation from as far back as the Middle Paleolithic.

Historically, the Western tradition identifies the general custom of praying for the dead dating as far back as 2 Maccabees 12: 42-46.

However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century, from the gradual realization of the dream of interchangeability, to the concept of reinventing workflow and job descriptions using analytical methods ( the most famous example being scientific management ).

If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.

Surviving artifacts, dating back to as far as ca.

God will not hold back judgment because Israel refuses to listen to the prophets and even goes so far as to try to silence them ( 2: 12, 3: 8, 7: 10-17 ).

Numerous Indian documents on copper plates exist, with the same symbol for zero in them, dated back as far as the 6th century CE.

Wheat, however, the grain used to bake bread back in England was almost impossible to grow, and imports of wheat were far from cost productive.

The Otto cycle in 1877 was capable of giving a far higher power to weight ratio than steam engines and worked much better for many transportation applications such as cars and aircraft.

* 1877 – A magnitude 8. 8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2, 541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.

* Radical Party ( Italy, 1877 ), a far left / left-liberal parliamentary group, 1877 – 1922

Some trace the origins of the modern ( U. S. based ) roast beef sandwich as far back as 1877, with the then little known " beefsteak toast " recipe: cold beef, bread and gravy dish.

Andrew Kemp noted that ' the entire plan of this Chapel corresponds to a large extent with the choir of Glasgow Cathedral ' as far back as 1877 in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries.

The LB & SCR under Stroudley was one of the first railways in Britain to adopt the Westinghouse railway air brake on its rolling stock after 1877 in preference to the far less effective vacuum brakes employed by its neighbours.

On the day of Clark's departure, April 16, 1877, students and faculty of SAC rode with him as far as the village of Shimamatsu, then outside of Sapporo.

In June of that year it was renamed again as Dziaržynsk by the Communist authorities, in honor of Felix Dzerzhinsky ( 1877 – 1926 ), a famous Bolshevik creator and chief of the " Cherezvychainaya Komissija " ( CHEKA ) – the Soviet secret police-who was born in a Dziaržynava estate not far from the city.

The line was opened as far as Bowenfels, just to the west, in 1869, but Lithgow station was not opened until 1877.

The Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company opened their line from to 1 May 1877 but the nearest station, other than at the pier near Landguard Common, was '' at Nacton ; a station at was soon added but this was on the far side of the town so of little use to people in the Trimleys.

Colonies of Australia occurred in 1873 in the far north of Queensland at the Palmer River, and by 1877 there were 20, 000 Chinese there.

She left him far more often than he did her, and in 1877 she returned to domestic service in Shropshire.

Graham Parkes describes his own 2005 translation as trying " above all to convey the musicality of the text ( which was not a priority for Walter Kaufmann or R. J. Hollingdale, authors of the best English translations so far ).

As far back as 1867 Parkes at an intercolonial conference had said: " I think the time has arrived when these colonies should be united by some federal bond of connexion.

The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

It was strictly the deputy's game, but McBride had gone too far to throw in.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

He had left us a legacy far more valuable than houses and lands and stocks and bonds.

Apparently no serious disorders resulted from the celebration, and within a few days, Morgan joined the force of Lafayette who now had command of some 2,000 men at Barren Hill, not far above Philadelphia on the Schuylkill.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??

Hillman had ordered him not to leave the far bank.