At first I thought he had missed.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

I had to confess that I had missed these frescoes, recently discovered, that he had studied in his eighties.

Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.

He was freshly shaved, and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of it on the massive gusts of his laughter.

Nelson had missed the French by less than a day, the scouts of the French fleet arriving off Alexandria in the evening of 29 June.

Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue, as Defence had lost its fore topmast and Orion was narrowly missed by an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle.

I had an opportunity and I missed it.

" Wills and Duncan left the Doughboys in 1933 after Wills had missed one show too many due to his sporadic drinking.

During three out of the last six quarters of Pfeiffer's tenure, the company's revenues or earnings had missed expectations.

By late 2006, HP had retook the # 1 sales position of PCs from Dell, which struggled with missed estimates and poor quality, and has held that rank ever since.

A number of opportunities to fire at capital ships had been missed during the War, because destroyers had expended all their torpedoes in an initial salvo.

" Thomas told her he had had a terrible week, had missed her terribly and wanted to go to bed with her.

Sullivan had to take a medical leave from the series and missed the Elvis Presley show.

The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible.

He had earlier missed a penalty that would have brought him level, in a pre-tournament friendly against Brazil.

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

He, and Mrs. Dalloway, too, had never permitted themselves the luxury of joys that dug into the bone marrow of the spirit.

* Instead of teeth, the extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws.

The newspaper continued, " On the bone being shown to an intelligent black ( sic ), he at once recognised it as belonging to the bunyip, which he declared he had seen.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

Knucklebones was a skill game played by women and children ; a derivative form had the four sides of the bone receive different values and count as modern dice.

It may be significant that Elbing's first industry was the same as Truso's had been: manufacture of amber and bone artifacts for export.

As human culture advanced, different populations of humans introduced novelty to existing technologies: artifacts such as fish hooks, buttons and bone needles show signs of variation among different populations of humans, something that had not been seen in human cultures prior to 50, 000 BP.

The first button seals were produced from terracotta and bone and had geometric designs.

When Europeans first arrived, inhabitants of New Guinea and nearby islands – while still relying on bone, wood, and stone tools – had a productive agricultural system.

The primary division was between the French and the Imperials ( the followers of the Holy Roman Emperor ), the Imperials wishing to see the Council of Trent reconvened, the French wishing to see it dropped ; a further bone of contention was the Duchy of Parma, for which both the Emperor and the Farnese had claimants.

Pterosaur's hip sockets are oriented facing slightly upwards, and the head of the femur ( thigh bone ) is only moderately inward facing, suggesting that pterosaurs had a semi-erect stance.

The bone came from an individual azhdarchid pterosaur estimated to have had a wingspan of 5-5. 5m ( 16. 5 – 18 ft ).

Richard Farnsworth was terminally ill with bone cancer during the shooting of the film, which had caused the paralysis of his legs as shown in the film.

Other famous examples of Vesalius disproving Galen in particular was his discovery that the lower jaw was only one bone, not two ( which Galen had assumed from animal dissection ) and his proof that blood did not pass through the interatrial septum.

In his extensive study of the skull, Vesalius claimed that the mandible consisted of one bone, whereas Galen had thought it was two separate bones.

* He also disproved the common belief that men had one rib fewer than women and noted that fibula and tibia bones of the leg were indeed larger than the humerus bone of the arm, unlike Galen's original findings.

Nicu Haas, an anthropologist at the Hebrew University Medical School in Jerusalem, examined the ossuary and discovered that it contained a heel bone with a nail driven through its side, indicating that the man had been crucified.

The position of the nail relative to the bone indicates that the feet had been nailed to the cross from their side, not from their front ; various opinions have been proposed as to whether they were both nailed together to the front of the cross or one on the left side, one on the right side.

Haas had also identified a scratch on the inner surface of the right radius bone of the forearm, close to the wrist.

These territories had been a bone of contention between Poland and Hungary, which was a part of the Austrian crown lands.

In 1992, Jeffreys ' methods were used to confirm the identity for German prosecutors of the Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, who had died in 1979, by comparing DNA obtained from a femur bone of his exhumed skeleton, and DNA from his widow and son, in a similar way to paternity testing.

In 1982, she was rushed to hospital when a fish bone stuck in her throat, and had an operation to remove it.

These had remnants of blood and bone, confirming their use in hunting.