Besides the gastraphetes, the ancient world knew a variety of mechanical hand-held weapons similar to the later medieval crossbow.

Besides children's music ( which includes four fairytale operas as well as the aforementioned songs ), three other special categories of compositions stand out among his works: ( 1 ) pieces inspired by and dedicated to the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau ( whom the composer knew from 1885 to her death in 1890 ; ( 2 ) works associated with the Circle of Russian Music Lovers ( the " Kerzin Circle "); and ( 3 ) pieces inspired by the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.

Besides Briand, André Maginot, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, Paul Reynaud, Laval brought in as his advisors, friends such as Maurice Foulon from Aubervilliers, and Pierre Cathala, whom he knew from his days in Bayonne and who had worked in Laval's Labour ministry.

Besides, I knew no one was going to write and ask to name a new species of swan after me.

Besides the aboriginal people of Tasmania, the Andamanese were the only people who in the 19th century knew no method of making fire, carefully preserving embers in hollowed-out trees from fires caused by lightning strikes.

Besides these Russian writers, according to Pisemsky's friend Boris Almazov, Pavel Katenin, the follower of French classicism and Russian translator of Racine and Cornel, whom Pisemsky knew through being a neighbour, exerted some influence upon him as well.

Besides the genres listed above, most also knew a songs belonging to genres such as,,, or.

Besides, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it!

Besides variety of metre and division into strophes, the Syrians prior to the ninth century knew no other artifice than the arrangement of acrostic poems.

Besides engaging in the usual personal appearances most television stars undertake to promote their program, Curtis also traveled around the country performing a western-themed stage show at fairs, rodeos and other venues when Gunsmoke wasn't in production, and even for some years after the show was canceled.

Besides a few exceptions it wasn't until the 16-bit consoles ( Super Nintendo and Mega Drive / Genesis ) when the developer began to produce titles with significant appeal.

Besides, she had a sweet face that attracted him.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

Besides, terror had sapped some of Frayne's vitality and will.

Besides the belt he wore a loin cloth.

Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.

Besides, he owns 300 slaves.

Besides, her endearments and caresses in the carriage had been new and stirring experiences to the simple youth.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Besides, that particular message does no more than weakly echo the roar in all fresh blood.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

Besides being political allies, they were also friends.

Besides Church and Sunday School I went to out-of-door meetings on the sidewalk at the church door.

Besides helping to prevent the movement of the British to the west, Valley Forge also obstructed the trade between Howe's forces and the farmers, thus threatening the vital subsistence of the redcoats and rendering their foraging to obtain necessary supplies extremely hazardous.

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

Besides, in all honesty, I don't know how you can be sure.

Besides, he can hardly avoid musing on the instability of death which, what with exhumations and rehabilitations, seems to match that of life.

Besides the lack of an adequate ethical dimension to the Governor's case, one can ask seriously whether our lead over the Russians in quality and quantity of nuclear weapons is so slight as to make the tests absolutely necessary.

Besides, there are no longer enough corruptible journalists about.

Besides, the records were dusty.

Besides the well-known hydrogen line at 21 cm wavelength, the spectra of extraterrestrial radio sources may contain sharp lines characteristic of other atoms, ions, and small molecules.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

Besides Francesca, there was Blanche.

Besides proteolytic enzymes the thyroid possesses de-iodinating enzymes.

Besides those of the thiouracil and resorcinol types, certain antithyroid drugs have been found in naturally occurring foods.

Besides the presence of goitrogens in the diet, the level of iodine itself in the diet plays a major role in governing the activity of the thyroid gland.

Cady Partlow lit his pipe with no comfort.

For once Cady Partlow wished Anne would yell at him so he could yell back.

Cady didn't come unglued easily, but this had not been a day of glad tidings.

Cady looked at his own son's scholastic record with pride.

Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.

Cady looked at Tom, who had taken him up and down for fifteen years.

As he drove home through the thinning traffic, Cady felt the unease growing.

Cady, deep in thought, neither heard nor answered.

Cady Partlow's head came up like that of the proverbial fire horse.

Cady begged the question.

Cady trailed her with the coffee cups and settled into his favorite chair in the comfortable book-lined room.

Cady handed her the letter, drank his coffee and waited with what he suddenly realized was belligerence.

`` I know you wrote this in a hurry, but, Cady, Dave was only acting president of the student forum for a few days.

Cady stuck his jaw out.

No, Cady, he made second team.

`` A team is a team '', insisted Cady.

`` I don't think you've been quite honest, Cady.

Don't worry, Cady, he'll be back in the Beethoven fold by next year ''.

Cady appeared slightly mollified.

Anne laughed and Cady felt the tension loosen its grip on the back of his neck.

Cady felt the jolt as though he had stepped off the curb on his heel.

Cady put the well-worn chip back on his shoulder.

He never will, Cady.

Cady walked the block to the mailbox, almost ashamed of himself for arguing with Anne.