Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

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.

I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.

She was going to tell Bobby Joe about how mistaken she had been, but he brought one of the cousins home for supper, and all they did was talk about antelope.

The joint investigations of linguistics and psychiatry have established, in point of fact, that no matter what the subject of conversation is or what words are involved, it is impossible for people to talk at all without telling over and over again what sort of people they are and how they relate to the rest of the world.

Now while he uses talk, caresses or requires caresses from her, his bride will sympathetically understand the situation and eagerly help him restore his physical situation so they can have the consummation they both so eagerly desire.

But, because they are politicians, they like to talk as poor-mouth as the lowliest voter.

It was a session at which all the youngsters were told to express their fears, to get them out in the open where they could talk about them freely.

And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four??

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

Sometimes they didn't talk at all.

Afterwards, the earth rises again from the sea, is fairer than before, and where Asgard used to be a remnant of the Æsir gather, some coming up from Hel, and talk and play chess all day with the golden chessmen of the ancient Æsir, which they find in the grass ( Section 58 ).

When animators or interface designers talk about the " physics " or " feel " of an operation, they may be referring to the particular Bézier curve used to control the velocity over time of the move in question.

Today, when mathematicians talk about " set theory " as a field, they usually mean axiomatic set theory.

It is possible that it was used in the marketplace to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying.

Typically when business people and economists talk of consumers they are talking about person as consumer, an aggregated commodity item with little individuality other than that expressed in the buy / not-buy decision.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal.

Related to this is lexicostatistics, which attempts to determine the degree of relation between a set of languages by comparing the percentage of basic vocabulary ( words like " I ", " you ", " heart ", " stone ", " two ", " be ", " and ") they share in common.

In mid-June cows are moved to the highest pastures close to the snowline, where they are watched by herdsmen who stay in the high altitudes often living in stone huts or wooden barns during the summers.

In front of the large windows, as if they were pillars that support the complex stone structure, there are six fine columns that seem to simulate the bones of a limb, with an apparent central articulation ; in fact, this is a floral decoration.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

A devastated Niobe and her remaining children were turned to stone by Artemis as they wept.

From the land they could only meet a few needs, such as stone for weapons, tools, stoves or lamps and grass for their woven baskets.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.

His famous example of this is using ancient Egypt and looking at the ways they built themselves out of media with very different properties stone and papyrus.

The other is stone and ' Time Binding ', through the construction of temples and the pyramids can sustain their authority generation to generation, through this media they can change and shape communication in their society ( Wark, McKenzie 1997 ).

The stones they used were the heavy stone weights from the weavers ' " warp beams ," fitted with a detachable handle for the purpose.

In many classical sites, sectioned columns were carved with a centre hole or depression so that they could be pegged together, using stone or metal pins.

Crannogs have been variously interpreted as free-standing wooden structures, as at Loch Tay, although more commonly they exist as brush, stone or timber mounds which can be revetted with timber piles.

Their primary connection is to their Liferock, which is a large formation of stone that they emerge from.

When the gods knew that Fenrir was fully bound, they took a cord called Gelgja ( Old Norse " fetter ") hanging from Gleipnir, inserted the cord through a large stone slab called Gjöll ( Old Norse " scream "), and the gods fastened the stone slab deep into the ground.

Large accessories such as benches, water fountains, stone features, urns, and statues should be used sparingly or they will cause a cluttered appearance.

The latte stone was used as a part of the raised foundation for a magalahi ( matao chief ) house, although they may have also been used for canoe sheds.

Depending on the type and extent of treatment, they can affect the value of the stone.

Hector smashes open a gate with a large stone, clears the gate and calls on the Trojans to scale the wall, which they do, and

Herodian wrote " this stone is worshipped as though it were sent from heaven ; on it there are some small projecting pieces and markings that are pointed out, which the people would like to believe are a rough picture of the sun, because this is how they see them ".

The Harmonites did not mark their graves with headstones or grave markers, because they thought it was unnecessary to do so ; however, one exception is George Rapp's grave in Harmony, Pennsylvania, which included a stone marker.

During much of the fifteen-mile ride they had watched a lurid display of lightning in the sky to the east.

(…) Thor, they say, presides over the air, which governs the thunder and lightning, the winds and rains, fair weather crops.

Weak thunderstorms produce mostly dry lightning, sparking wildfires that are mostly left to burn themselves out as they are often far from populated areas.

When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

In the process, they wake Godzilla using a lightning rod.

They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heracleidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.

Inductors are also employed in electrical transmission systems, where they are used to depress voltages from lightning strikes and to limit switching currents and fault current.

Ōkami uses a system similar to mouse gestures ; the player can enter a drawing mode in which the shape they create ( circle, lightning bolt, line, etc.

:" Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that, just as easily as they raise hailstorms, so can they cause lightning and storms at sea ; and so no doubt at all remains on these points.

Those who died in water or weather related deaths such as drowning, lightning and water-borne diseases ( leprosy, dropsy, scabies and gout ) were thought to pass on to Tlalocan when they died, as were people of stunted growth ( as their short stature was seen as a connection to the Tlaloque ).

In Greek and Roman religion, instead, the homonymous gods * Diou-and Δι ( digamma )- evolved into atmospheric deities ; by their mastery of thunder and lightning, they expressed themselves and made their will known to the community.

According to the EMP Commission Executive Report of 2004, " In general, it would not be an issue for critical infrastructure systems since they have existing protective measures for defense against occasional lightning strikes.

The radio waves were originally thought to be generated by turbulence in the radiation belts, but recent work by James Green of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center comparing maps of lightning activity collected by the Micro Lab 1 spacecraft with data on radio waves in the radiation-belt gap from the IMAGE spacecraft suggests that they are actually generated by lightning within Earth's atmosphere.

Because of the much greater distance they must travel before discharging, positive lightning strikes typically carry six to ten times the charge and voltage difference of a negative bolt and last around ten times longer.

Prior to that, they were seen in the West as an atmospheric phenomenon, like lightning, and were not connected with strange stories of rocks falling from the sky.

One of the more significant hazards lightning can pose is the wildfires they are capable of igniting.

Greeks thought they were battles waged by Zeus, who hurled lightning bolts forged by Hephaestus.

They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heracleidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.

She secreted a knife in the marriage bed and on the wedding night tried to kill Telephus, but Heracles separated the two with a flash of lightning and they both recognized each other as mother and son.

And he sang how first of all Ophion and Eurynome, daughter of Oceanus, held the sway of snowy Olympus, and how through strength of arm one yielded his prerogative to Cronos and the other to Rhea, and how they fell into the waves of Oceanus ; but the other two meanwhile ruled over the blessed Titan-gods, while Zeus, still a child and with the thoughts of a child, dwelt in the Dictaean cave ; and the earthborn Cyclopes had not yet armed him with the bolt, with thunder and lightning ; for these things give renown to Zeus.

They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.

They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.