Astride the horse on the left is the guidon ( flag ) carrier who is signaling a sharp right wheel.

Astride an elephant, Attenborough highlights their love of water, before moving on to those that are completely at home in it.

* 2004: Genevieve Benay ( from France ), Michele Birch-Conery ( from Canada ), Astride Indrican ( from Latvia ), Victoria Rue ( from the USA ), Jane Via ( from the USA ), and Monika Wyss ( from Switzerland ) were ordained as deacons on a ship in the Danube.

The electrical traction system is directly derived from the system used on Alstom's BB 36000 Astride locomotives ; this includes four 1. 5MW three phase asynchronous traction motors powered by GTO based inverters, with one inverter per motor ; the electric system also allows dynamic and rheostatic braking.

Astride the southwest wall is the smaller Lockyer.

Astride the southwest rim of D ' Alembert is Slipher.

" This is a quote from the second act of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, in which the character Vladimir is heard to say, " Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.

His image as a handsome and mighty warrior wearing a pheasant-tailed headdress and wielding a ji known as the " Sky Piercer " () on top of his steed Red Hare was later popularized by Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The first of these artifacts is a mighty sword ( probably Tyrfing ), forged in the dawn of the world, and the second given in a song is a mighty, eight-legged stallion ridden by ' his father's God ' ( Sleipnir, Odin's steed ).

The Devil Z / Black Zarak hybrid blew up the Decepticon base in a failed attempted to destroy the Autobots, and led the Decepticons ' renewed attacks on the Earth with his mighty " Devil Thunder " power, seeking to wipe out humanity, fearful of the unpredictable power of their strength and spirit.

Red banners are often hung from walls or ceilings to symbolize the blowing of the " mighty wind " and the free movement of the Spirit.

Angus, the " Red Douglas ", was a kinsman and enemy of the Black Douglases, and became the new power from that mighty house.

The Mets won the Eastern Division title on the last day of the season with a paltry. 508 winning percentage, and went on to upset the mighty " Big Red Machine " in the 1973 National League Championship Series.

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

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

`` It was mighty good for the old man to get out again ''.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

`` She was mighty good to you past times, an' this'll fetch her ''.

I was struck by the size of the man, and although cumbersome and heavy, he was still a mighty figure.

" It was indeed a truly shocking sight to see the miserable remains of this mighty army ," wrote Captain Drake, "… reduced to a handful.

There was a mighty hiss of compressed air from her tanks and the U-27 vanished from sight in a vortex of giant rumbling bubbles, leaving a pall of smoke over the spot where she had been.

It was inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr .' s paraphrase "... we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

: For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.

Even the mighty English was described as ' a delicate frigate ' after modifications in 1651.

In Norse mythology, Ginnungagap (" mighty gap ") was the vast, primordial void that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe.

Its economy was weak, its leadership poor, and the once mighty Prussian army was a hollow shell.

His father, despite being a mighty Dragon King, was unable to do anything while his son was on land.

: A mighty fountain momently was forced:

The Lithuanian-Polish alliance was able to defeat the mighty Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410.

Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg ( probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty and burga for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry I the Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs.

In fact, Nazareth was described negatively by the evangelists ; the Gospel of Mark argues that Nazareth did not believe in Jesus and therefore he could " do no mighty work there "; in the Gospel of Luke, the Nazarenes are portrayed as attempting to kill Jesus by throwing him off a cliff ; in the Gospel of Thomas, and in all four canonical gospels, we read the famous saying that " a prophet is not without honor except in his own country.

When the Pisans subsequently ousted the Genoese from Sardinia, a new conflict and rivalry was born between these mighty marine republics.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

He later clashed with the mighty Prince Menshikov, was stripped him of his titles and exiled him to the Solovki.

McNally's victim was Dave Boswell, who was a mighty tough opponenet.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

() Ham ’ s son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar.

The Syracusan cavalry rode them down mercilessly, eventually killing or enslaving all who were left of the mighty Athenian fleet.

During the course of their journeys, the three encounter enemies and obstacles both sacred and profane, including: the Saint of Killers, an invincible, quick-drawing, perfect-aiming, come-lately Angel of Death answering only to " He who sits on the throne "; a disfigured suicide attempt survivor turned rock-star named Arseface ; a serial-killer called the ' Reaver-Cleaver '; The Grail, a secret organization controlling the governments of the world and protecting the bloodline of Jesus ; Herr Starr, ostensible Allfather of the Grail, a megalomaniac with a penchant for prostitutes, who wishes to use Custer for his own ends ; several fallen angels ; and Jesse's own redneck ' family ' — particularly his nasty Cajun grandmother, her mighty bodyguard Jody, and the ' animal-loving ' T. C.

The second part of this defense argues for the logical possibility of " a mighty nonhuman spirit " such as Satan who is responsible for so-called ' natural evils ', including earthquakes, tidal waves, and virulent diseases.

In the decree of election, those who had chosen him as Bishop of Rome proclaimed Gregory VII " a devout man, a man mighty in human and divine knowledge, a distinguished lover of equity and justice, a man firm in adversity and temperate in prosperity, a man, according to the saying of the Apostle, of good behavior, blameless, modest, sober, chaste, given to hospitality, and one that ruleth well his own house ; a man from his childhood generously brought up in the bosom of this Mother Church, and for the merit of his life already raised to the archidiaconal dignity ".

The Church Father Hippolytus, writing in the early 3rd century, discloses that " the Athenians, while initiating people into the Eleusinian rites, likewise display to those who are being admitted to the highest grade at these mysteries, the mighty, and marvellous, and most perfect secret suitable for one initiated into the highest mystic truths: an ear of corn in silence reaped.

They were the mighty who, from old, were men of devastation.

During the Early Middle Ages, most of the area was part of the Kingdom of Munster, ruled by the Eóganachta dynasty, who succeeded the once mighty Dáirine and Corcu Loígde overlords from the early 7th century onwards, perhaps beginning with the notable career of Faílbe Flann mac Áedo Duib.

God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet,

God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Thus duke Charles was one of the greatest losers in those struggles of the mighty, the small who was left crushed.

That once mighty empire was now reduced to the troops, officials, and nobles who had gathered around a general holding out at Harran, who had taken the throne name of Ashur-uballit II.

In Wið færstice, a sudden pain is attributed to a small, " shrieking " spear thrown with supernatural strength ( Old English mægen ) by " fierce " loudly flying " mighty women " ( Old English mihtigan wif ) who have ridden over a burial mound:

* There are nine surviving deities of Ragnarök, including Baldr and Hödr, Magni and Modi, Vidar and Váli, Hoenir, the daughter of Sól and a ninth " powerful, mighty one, he who rules over everything ".

"... I now began to understand things hitherto so strange, the love the mighty monarch felt for his fair Grecian slave, Antinous, who -- like unto Christ -- died for his master's sake.

In the last section of Iliad, Moira is the " mighty fate " ( μοίρα κραταιά: moira krataia ) who leads destiny and the course of events.

Juan González de Mendoza in his History of the great and mighty kingdom of China ( 1585 ; English translation 1588 ), based on the reports of Spanish friars who had visited China in the 1570s, highly praises the fruit:

The latter reminded her of mighty Heracles ( now, an Olympian himself ) who held the record of wounding not one but two Olympians as a human.

Of those who have promoted a connection, perhaps the most notable person of late is John Morris in his Age of Arthur, where he refers in passing and without authority, to "... Bridei, son of Maelgwn, the mighty king of north Wales, ...".

Legba also shares similarities to Orunmila, the orisha of prophesy who taught mankind how to use mighty Ifá.