She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

Fortunately it spared us from the usual spate of silly resolutions which in the past have made Georgia look like anything but `` the empire state of the South ''.

Then, noting neither the absence of his footwear nor the presence of the rosebuds, he made his way to the Byzantine room and, with his usual dignity, mounted the rostrum.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

The usual requirements are that the new name must be used exclusively and that the change was not made with intent to defraud.

In 1799 Goya published a series of 80 prints titled Caprichos depicting what he described as " the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance, or self-interest have made usual ".

The distinction between regular kana and the smaller character forms, which are used in regular orthography to mark such things as gemination and palatalization, is often not made in furigana: for example, the usual hiragana spelling of the word ( kyakka ) is, but in furigana it might be written.

Special effects: When Godzilla marches on Tokyo, the buildings are the usual fake miniature models, made out of paint and cardboard.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

His Whole Booke of Job Paraphrased, or made easy for any to understand ( 1640, quarto ), was written in a terse style which contrasts with the usual wordiness of the Puritan expositors and commentators.

The gelatin is made using twice the normal amount of gelatin granules to the usual amount of water.

Before he died, Rabbeinu HaKadosh said: ‘ I need my sons !… Let the lamp continue to burn in its usual place ; let the table be set in its usual place ; let the bed be made in its usual place .” ( Kesubbos / Ketubot 103a )

militissa ), Du Cange notes that still in his day ( 17th c .), the female canons of the canonical monastery of St. Gertrude in Nivelles ( Brabant ), after a probation of 3 years, are made knights ( militissae ) at the altar, by a ( male ) knight called in for that purpose, who gives them the accolade with a sword and pronounces the usual words.

After everyone has made their decision, the replacement cards are dealt starting at the dealer's left as usual.

It defined " Popish recusants " as those " convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel, or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Service there, but forbearing the same contrary to the tenor of the laws and statutes heretofore made and provided in that behalf.

According to Saint historian Burl Barer, Charteris made the decision to remove Templar from his usual confidence-game trappings, not to mention his usual co-stars Holm, Uniatz, Orace and Teal, as they weren't appropriate for the post-war stories he was writing.

When creating the main characters Carter, sought to switch the usual gender stereotypes and made Mulder a believer and Scully a skeptic.

Carter made them a female skeptic and a male believer, thus " shaking " usual gender stereotypes.

He came to believe that Leigh's interpretation, in which Lady Macbeth uses her sexual allure to keep Macbeth enthralled, " made more sense [...] than the usual battle-axe " portrayal of the character.

By the usual procedure of crew rotation in the Gemini program, White would have been in line for a second flight as the Command Pilot of Gemini 10 in July 1966, which would have made him the first of his group to fly twice.

On 7 May 1889 he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

This conformational entropy is, in this case, equal to the usual entropy, for there are no other changes or other energies involved.

The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.

After a week of singing the psalms without the usual antiphons, Ceolfrith " could not bear it any longer ", and the two managed to restore the usual service, " with no little labour ".

The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament.

It was fully recognised by the service that she had no subversive affiliations and therefore should not be recorded under any of the usual subversive categories.

A little economy today has no sense as usual for future.

For square matrices with entries in a non-commutative ring, for instance the quaternions, there is no unique definition for the determinant, and no definition that has all the usual properties of determinants over commutative rings.

Since the passage of the Instrument of Government of 1974, Swedish kings no longer have many of the usual parliamentary system head of state functions that had previously belonged to them.

Hungarians also had their own writing system, the Old Hungarian script, but no significant texts remain from that time, as the usual medium of writing, wooden sticks, is perishable.

Most of his hundreds of woodcuts were commissioned for books, as was usual at the time ; his " single-leaf " woodcuts ( i. e. prints not for book illustration ) are fewer than 100, though no two catalogues agree as to the exact number.

In as much as patients can throw themselves into the nervous sleep, and manifest all the usual phenomena of Mesmerism, through their own unaided efforts, as I have so repeatedly proved by causing them to maintain a steady fixed gaze at any point, concentrating their whole mental energies on the idea of the object looked at ; or that the same may arise by the patient looking at the point of his own finger, or as the Magi of Persia and Yogi of India have practised for the last 2, 400 years, for religious purposes, throwing themselves into their ecstatic trances by each maintaining a steady fixed gaze at the tip of his own nose ; it is obvious that there is no need for an exoteric influence to produce the phenomena of Mesmerism.

After filling the molds, if there is no cave, " bed " the ice in the usual way.

Puhua was known for his unusual behavior and teaching style so it is no wonder that he is associated with an event that breaks the usual prohibition on displaying such powers.

The Majesco Core Game Gear differed slightly from the original Game Gear in that it was black and had a purple start button rather than dark grey and a blue start button, the logo on the front of the unit was no longer in color, the power switch was colored black rather than the usual orange and it did not support the television tuner accessory.

Trips will be 2 hours instead of the usual 6 hours because there will be no stop overs in Seattle, as with other flights.

One cannot use deduction, the usual process of moving logically from premise to conclusion, because there is no syllogism that allows this.

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

Some makers of snacks such as potato chips or crisps have produced baked versions of their snack items as an alternative to the usual cooking method of deep-frying in an attempt to reduce the calorie or fat content of their snack products. Baking has opened up doors to businesses like cake making factories and privatised cake shops but the baking process is done in a more larger mass in bigger and open furnaces.

An early attempt to score a debating triumph over the government, made in Balfour's usual abstruse, theoretical style, saw Campbell-Bannerman respond with: " Enough of this foolery ," to the delight of his supporters in the House.

In their own words announced as " a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult " it is an attempt to dissociate from the Lo-Fi aesthetics of the garage scene: " When the rest of the punk oriented world tried hard to be lo-fi and ' real ', Turbonegro as usual went the opposite way, creating a miniature suburban deathpunk opera.

In the sense that attrition warfare represents an attempt to grind down an opponent through superior numbers, it represents the opposite of the usual principles of war, where one attempts to achieve decisive victories through maneuver, concentration of force, surprise, and the like.

The reason for creating another alter ego was Akunin's desire to write historical novels without a mystery component and to attempt a " Slavophile " look at Russian history in lieu of his usual " Westerner " outlook.

In a final desperate attempt to overcome his drug addiction, partially prompted by his inability to obtain drugs through his usual channels ( the authorities had imposed a strict monitoring of the medical institutions in order to prevent illicit drug distribution during the 1980 Olympics ), he switched back to alcohol and went on a prolonged drinking binge ( apparently consuming copious amounts of champagne due to a prevalent misconception at the time that it was better than vodka at countering the effects of drug withdrawal ).

The Blues opened the scoring when Gary Lineker outpaced Alan Hansen to shoot past Grobbelaar at the second attempt and held this lead until half-time as Liverpool struggled to find their usual rhythm.

In July 2008 Triumph attended the San Diego Comicon, not only wandering the floor and speaking to many of the attendees, but also had a ten minute skit at the start of the TV Funhouse presentation where, amongst the usual nerd-related gags, he implored everyone present to get to their feet and attempt a jumping jack.

The tour selectors, in an attempt to strengthen the batting line-up, asked Hutton to bat in the middle order rather than his usual position as opener.

It can be argued that the Shining series started as an attempt by Sega to cover all of its bases on their consoles as far as the usual gameplay genres, because it emulated styles that Nintendo and other developers pioneered.

Keepnews in the liner notes talks about the two extra pieces released on CD, " Beautiful Love ( take 1 )" and " The Boy Next Door "; the first version of " Beautiful Love " to be included in the original LP was a second take, in fact as Keepnews specifies, " it is not the usual case of a second attempt that immediately followed the first.

Sima Yi, letting go of his usual cautiousness after his prior success, ordered Zhang He's cavalry to further pursue the enemy in an attempt to capitalize on their recent victory.

In a more commonly " turtled " battleground, Alterac Valley, any attempt by either side to commit large numbers of players to defense thereby prolonging the game longer than usual is also considered " turtling ".

Quick reactions are also a necessity, in conjunction with sound judgement ; for example, a fortuitous rebound may allow a player to shoot from much closer to the halfway line than usual, but due to this rebound there may be no time to control the ball before it reaches the halfway line: the player must then decide quickly whether it is better to shoot and attempt to return to his goal area before he is lobbed, or to simply allow the ball to cross the line to his opponent and maintain an advantageous position defensively.

Angelou made a deliberate attempt while writing Caged Bird to challenge the usual structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing, and expanding the genre.

The usual explanations of religion — as an attempt to explain what is otherwise puzzling, as a provider of comfort, as a good thing for society or as an escape from reason — are quickly dismissed.

He was replaced by Louis-Philippe, who named himself " King of the French " ( rather than the usual " King of France ") in an attempt to distance himself from the Ancien Régime.

However, warmer than usual weather conditions and difficulties in finding a relatively safe route rebuffed the attempt, which was made after a 35-km glacial approach.

Although they failed in their assassination attempt they almost killed Jake and proved to be harder than usual to beat when Gaia fought them.

The Quraysh were so respected and popular that they felt no fears for their caravans being robbed or harmed along the way, and the various tribes did not even attempt to charge them the usual heavy transit taxes they demanded from other caravans

Wesley, Geordi and Data attempt to determine why Worf seems more agitated than usual, and discover that he is upset over not participating in a key Klingon ritual.