It did not take me long to slip the bolt securely and return to the rear and its couch.

Before long the atmosphere reverted to its old normalcy, and insects hummed and birds occasionally called.

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

It could never happen as long as God was alert and the Drew steeple stood guard with its peaked lance.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

As a boy Roy Mason began the long process of extracting the goodness of the out-of-doors, its tang of weather, its change of seasons, its variable moods.

It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.

For example, the marked susceptibility of the monkey to respiratory infection might be related to its delicate, long alveolar ducts and short, large bronchioles situated within a parenchyma entirely lacking in protective supportive tissue barriers such as those found in types 1, and 3.

It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??

In this connection, it might be noted that the theory of games was a mathematical discovery long before its uses in political science were exploited.

Despite its rather long intellectual history, alienation is still a promising hypothesis and not a verified theory.

Experiments carried out over long periods of time in order to allow establishment of a steady state have shown that the onset of contraction and its completion are confined to an interval of several degrees Centigrade and to a concentration range of only several per cent.

Wine stored for a long time should be on its side ; ;

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

`` Emory could not continue to operate according to its present standards as an institution of higher learning, of true university grade, and meet its financial obligations, without the tax-exemption privileges which are available to it only so long as it conforms to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions '', the statement said.

It was also widely used by the Chinese for its healing chemicals, curing illnesses such as infections, rashes, and migraines.

Maintaining a high moisture content in cement during curing increases both the speed of curing, and its final strength.

The curing process begins on the outer surface and progresses through to its core.

* Concrete, clay bricks and other forms of masonry: the thermal conductivity of concrete depends on its composition and curing technique.

It is widely used in industrial settings as a quality control instrument due to its applicability in evaluating sample purity and for studying polymer curing.

Following a popular trend at the time, Wootan began bottling the water and marketing it for its curing properties.

At that time alum was important for medicinal uses, in curing leather and for fixing dyed cloths and the Papal States and Spain maintained monopolies on its production and sale.

Sodium nitrite, used as a modern curing agent and allowing room temperature storage, gives pepperoni the pink of its distinct orange-pink color, while paprika or other capsicum provides the orange.

The English word jade ( alternative spellings " jaid ", " jadeite ") is derived ( via French l ' ejade and Latin ilia ) from the Spanish term piedra de ijada ( first recorded in 1565 ) or " loin stone ", from its reputed efficacy in curing ailments of the loins and kidneys.

Treatment is aimed at minimizing damage while the disease runs its course, not at ' curing ' the disease.

Before the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE, mad cow disease ), it was an industrial practice to add bovine blood plasma into the fish paste to help its curing or gel-forming.

Rubber bands are made by extruding the rubber into a long tube to provide its general shape, putting the tubes on mandrels and curing the rubber with heat, and then slicing it across the width of the tube into little bands.

Sahaja Yoga methods are used to achieve better meditations and the technique is studied for its curing effects of various illnesses.

In the parish is a spring of very cold water, called Y Pistyll Goleu, " the bright water-spout ," issuing from the side of a hill, under a considerable depth of earth over a limestone rock: it has by some writers been termed mineral, but it is not known to possess any other properties than that of its extreme coldness, which renders it efficacious in curing sprains and weakness of the sinews.

The city was declared a hydro-mineral spa in 1941 due to its various fountains of torio-radioactive waters, which are reputedly sought out for curing liver and kidney problems.

The medical model tends to believe that curing or at least managing illness or disability mostly or completely revolves around identifying the illness or disability from an in-depth clinical perspective ( in the sense of the scientific understanding undertaken by trained healthcare providers ), understanding it, and learning to control and / or alter its course.

Despite its controversies and its downfall, the Synanon program is credited with curing some people of their addictions.

It claimed it could transform an unhappy person into a cheerful person, a new variation on its earlier theme of curing depression.

Further on lies Hajeera ( Poonch ), to which thousands of people flock each year in hopes of curing their illnesses at its famous sulphur springs.

People swim in the dam water because of its mythical curing powers.

Borsec owes its fame to its mineral waters, known for their curing properties.