Spofforth went on to devastate the English batting, taking his final four wickets for only two runs to leave England just eight runs short of victory in one of the closest and most nail-biting finishes in the history of cricket.

For example, there are more than six signs for birthday in ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean the same thing.

In 1835 the steamer " Tigris " of the English Euphrates expedition went down in a hurricane just above Anah, near where Julian's force had suffered from a similar storm.

For example, they might interpret a tomato as a vegetable — according to the English definition of tomato — even though the ideal Blissymbol of vegetable was restricted by Bliss to just vegetables growing underground.

Ogden's Basic, and the concept of a simplified English, gained its greatest publicity just after the Allied victory in the Second World War as a means for world peace.

Most English verbs ( traditionally known as " weak verbs ") have just four separate forms, e. g., " start ", " starts ", " starting ", " started ".

82 % of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the figure drops to just 7. 7 % as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French.

The relation he there gives of the miracle is as follows: " On the nones ( or 7th ) of May, about the third hour, ( or nine in the morning ,) a vast luminous body, in the form of a cross, appeared in the heavens, just over the holy Golgotha, reaching as far as the holy mount of Olivet, ( that is, almost two English miles in length ,) seen not by one or two persons, but clearly and evidently by the whole city.

' Ż ' is pronounced just like the English ' Z ' as in ' Zebra ', while ' Z ' is used to make the sound of ' ts ' in English ( like ' tsunami ' or ' maths ').

At the same time, the English Civil War pitting King against Parliament was just beginning.

For English Dominican mystics, the mystical experience was not expressed just in one moment of the full knowledge of God, but in the journey of, or process of, faith.

* Felpham & Middleton Country Dance Club has written a history from 1933 – 1994, just about one of the oldest extant English Country Dance clubs in England.

In 1825 a manuscript listing a vocabulary of the Baltic Old Prussian language, named the Elbing-Prussian Dictionary (), or more commonly in English just Elbing Vocabulary, was found among some manuscripts from a merchant's house.

Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).

On a budget of $ 40, 000 ($ 20, 000 from Corman and $ 20, 000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights ), Coppola directed in a period of just nine days, Dementia 13, his first feature from his own original screenplay.

Another example is the English pair of words " assist " and " attend ", whose meanings in Spanish are just the opposite.

As both hurd and hird are just alternate spellings for the English word herd, the full name GNU Hurd is also a play on the words herd of gnus, reflecting how the kernel works.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

International English sometimes refers to English as it is actually being used and developed in the world ; as a language owned not just by native speakers, but by all those who come to use it.

The modern English name comes from an 18th century misreading of yet another variant, Ioua, which was either just Adomnán's attempt to make the Gaelic name fit Latin grammar or else a genuine derivative from Ivova (" yew place ").

The mental maps of English speakers appear to contain just six basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

* 1959 – SR. N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over 2 hours.

`` Your wife just called '', she said, separating one word from another, exactly like a child.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

`` When Mickey went to the Yankees '', says Mark Freeman, an ex-Yankee pitcher who sells mutual funds in Denver, `` DiMaggio still was playing and every day Mickey would go by his locker, just aching for some word of encouragement from this great man, this hero of his.

Too many books and articles are just assembled by putting one word after another.

Christianity's idea of " eternal life " comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

The relative order of clitics in a cluster is usually strictly fixed ( just as affixes appear in a strict order within a single word ):

Bromocriptine has been shown by some studies to increase verbal fluency and word retrieval with therapy than with just therapy alone.

" However the word may be used as a colloquial term of endearment or in an attempt at humorous self-deprecation ( e. g., in such phrases as " I know I'm just an old fart " or " you do like to fart about !").

The Democrats spread the word of this insult in the days before the election, and Cleveland narrowly won all four of the swing states, including New York by just over one thousand votes.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

* Radio Amateur News — July 1919 to July 1920 — dropped the word " amateur " and became just Radio News

The word icon referred to any and all images, not just religious ones, but there was barely a need for a separate word for these.

In Turkish, " Jonah fish " ( in Turkish yunus baligi ) is the word used for dolphin, often shortened to just yunus.

But that person can " love " just one special person, which they call the word " aşk.

The Turks used this word just for their loves in a romantic or sexual sense.

" I also rejected the word “ metaphilosophy .” The philosophy of philosophy is automatically part of philosophy, just as the philosophy of anything else is, whereas metaphilosophy sounds as though it might try to look down on philosophy from above, or beyond.

The word " Mormons " most often refers to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of their belief in the Book of Mormon, though members often refer to themselves as Latter-day Saints or sometimes just Saints.

By mathematical analogy: A metasyntactic variable is a word that is a variable for other words, just as in algebra letters are used as variables for numbers.

A myriad is primarily a singular cardinal number ; just as the " thousand " in " four thousand " is singular ( one does not write " four thousands people ") the word myriad is used in the same way: " there are four myriad people outside ".

The toadstool's connection to toads may be direct, in reference to some species of poisonous toad, or may just be a case of phonosemantic matching from the German word.

He would sometimes tell people the term had been created by combining the words " marionette " and " puppet ", but he also said that it was really just a made-up word.