In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

The girl took a couple of steps toward the man in shorts when Benson, in that barefoot courtliness Ramey could never decide was real, said, `` You don't want to go around there, Ma'am ''.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

It took me a moment to realize what was odd about that panel: there was a gimbaled compass welded to it, which rocked gently back and forth as the Land Rover bounced about.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

The restaurant to which the Sakellariadises took us on this night of controversy was the Asteria, on Asteria beach.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Morgan took the suggested steps, but when Mrs. Sanderson appeared, there was nobody with her but her husband, whom he promptly sent to headquarters to be questioned.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Macrophages laden with brown pigment were seen in some of the alveoli, and the intima of some of the small arteries was thickened by fibrous tissue.

The plaster was sound, the intonaco firmly attached all over, and the pigment solidly incorporated with it in all but a few unimportant places.

Crocoite was used as a pigment, and after the discovery that the mineral chromite also contains chromium, this mineral was used to produce pigments as well.

It was used for a long time as a pigment and for corrosion resistant plating on steel while cadmium compounds were used to stabilize plastic.

The possibility to use cadmium yellow as pigment was recognized in the 1840s but the lack of cadmium limited this application.

The cause for this was uncertain as there could have been natural causes, although a study by Pyatt et al proposed that the bodies may have been painted with a copper-based pigment.

Similarly, green deposits were found in the hair, originally thought to be a copper-based pigment used for decoration, however it was later found to be the result of a reaction between the keratin in the hair and the acid of the peat bog.

Mezzo-fresco is painted on nearly-dry plaster was defined by the sixteenth-century author Ignazio Pozzo as " firm enough not to take a thumb-print " so that the pigment only penetrates slightly into the plaster.

He found that the black pigment was associated with a layer of mucus just beneath the skin.

This work, like that of the decade-earlier report of high-conductivity in a polypyrrole, was " too early " and went unrecognized outside of pigment cell research until recently.

The pigment was often made from ground semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and the binder made from either gum arabic or egg white.

The small shell of the Murex trunculus was broken in order to extract the pigment that was so rare it became the mark of royalty.

As a natural pigment, it ( along with its chemical cousins ochre and umber ) was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings.

The name of this pigment was classically referred to by the French term, " terre de Sienne brulée ".

The pigment was most extensively used during the 14th through 15th centuries, as its brilliance complemented the vermilion and gold of illuminated manuscripts and Italian panel paintings.

The pigment was mixed with a binding medium like egg and applied over dry plaster ( such as Giotto di Bondone's frescos in the Cappella degli Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua ).

Most likely imported to Europe through Venice, the pigment was seldom seen in German art or art from countries north of Italy.

It was also ground and processed to make the pigment ultramarine for tempera paint and, more rarely, oil paint.

As this tendency coincides with the period that he was less popular among the wealthy, some historians have suggested that a reason for his predilection for black and white pigment was the low price of these colors as compared with the costly lakes and carmines.

The pigment was expensive and complex to produce, and items colored with it became associated with power and wealth.