By night it is an active and fearless hunter, preying mostly on insects and their larvae, small lizards, and young mammals almost as large as itself.

By 1660, his servitude was complete and he began to wander the various islands, before finally arriving in Saint-Domingue and becoming a buccaneer, preying on shipping from the Spanish West Indies and Spanish Main.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

By fixing the tax rate in advance of spending, upper limits are set on expenditures.

By this standard, it is determined that where two stations operating on the same frequency are involved, objectionable interference from station A exists at any point within the service area of station B where station A's signal is of an intensity one-twentieth or more of the strength of station B's signal at that point.

By automobile from New York, for example, you can take a one or two-day tour to Annapolis, Maryland to see the colonial homes and the U.S. Naval Academy ( where you can shoot the dress parade on Wednesdays ) ; ;

By submerging the patient in a tub and rotating the transducer while the scanning goes on, they have been able to get cross-section views of the neck, as shown in Fig. 7, as well as many other hitherto impossible insights.

Reports Jim Lendrum: `` By studying men on the job, we found that two men -- a carpenter and a helper -- can lay a floor faster than three.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.

By all means the most important distinction is that between those total-cost apportionments which superimpose a distribution of admittedly unallocable cost residues on estimates of incremental or marginal costs, and those other apportionments which recognize no difference between true cost allocation and mere total-cost distribution.

By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved, at least on a simple plane ; ;

By 1871 L. C. Orvis, manager of the `` Western Union Telegraph Company '', expressed willingness to send emergency telegrams on Sundays from his Village drugstore.

By themselves they may not be able to save the life on this planet, but without them there would be very little left worth saving.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

By the time her hindquarters were in a standin' position, her knees were on the ground in a prayin' attitude.

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.

By a wrenching effort, he managed to hunch and draw in, to take the final fall on his back and shoulders rather than his head.

`` By winning against Bradley, Kentucky and Notre Dame on those teams' home courts, they showed that the home court advantage can be overcome anywhere and that it doesn't take a super team to do it ''.

By mid-June, millions of Americans will take to the road on vacation trips up and down and back and forth across this vast and lovely land.

By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.

By the end of the third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other shells.

By the time the fielder got his hands on the ball Deegan was rounding third base and heading for home.

By the time of the 19th Dynasty some workers enjoyed such benefits as medical insurance, pensions and sick leave.

By the release of 1984's Meat Puppets II, the bandmembers " were so sick of the hardcore thing ," according to Bostrom.

By the mid-19th century, the Ottoman Empire was called the " sick man " by Europeans.

By then Fields was very sick and suffering from delirium tremens.

By 1980, though still a sick company, the B & M started turning around thanks to aggressive marketing and its purchase of a cluster of branch lines in Connecticut.

By that time, she had founded 67 missionary institutions to serve the sick and poor and train additional nuns to carry on the work.

By the time of his final performance on 10 January 1995 in the Netherlands, he was visibly sick.

By this point, Burgess had become thoroughly sick of " The Purple Cow ," and wrote the following " Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue " in The Lark, number 24 ( April 1, 1897 ).

By contrast, in O ’ Hanlon v Revenue and Customs Commissioners the Court of Appeal rejected that it would be a reasonable adjustment, as Ms O ' Hanlon was requesting after falling into clinical depression, for an employer to increase sick pay to full pay, after the expiry of a six month period that applied to everyone else.

By August 1861, Yancey was sick, frustrated, and ready to resign.

By Dec. 31, 1861, U. S. forces amounting to 425, 000 were listed as " present for duty " with their units in the Official Records ; another 52, 000 were listed variously as: present but detached for temporary “ extra or daily ” duty ; sick ; or under arrest.

By September 14 the Americans were urgently moving stores of ammunition and other materiel, along with American sick, to Orangetown, New York.

The AIDS Survival project writes, " By the late ' 90s, ACT UP San Francisco developed a very different philosophy concerning AIDS treatment and began to align itself with groups that believe HIV does not cause AIDS and that it is the use of anti-HIV medications which make people get sick and die.

By the time the expedition reached Dongchuan, in Yunnan, China, he was too sick to be moved, and his second-in-command Francis Garnier took command.

By the time the army returned to England four days later some 6, 000 were ill, with the sick returns listed at Portsmouth and Plymouth alone as 5, 000.

By this time, Madeleine's health had deteriorated even further, and she was very sick when the royal pair landed in Scotland.

By this point, he was a sick man who could barely even leave his own house.

By 1930, when the Kansas Medical Board held a formal hearing to decide whether Brinkley's medical license should be revoked, Brinkley had signed death certificates for 42 people, many of whom were not sick when they showed up at his clinic.

By the time of his mid or late-adult years, Ryan developed a sick insatiable taste for the female gender, and he began attacking prostitutes and stray women with the cunning of a wild animal.

By contrast, for those who were both poor and sick -- people who might be found among those covered by Medicaid or lacking insurance -- the reduction in use was harmful, on average ".

By the 1980s Ireland was referred to as the ' sick man of Europe ' and was far behind its European rivals-frequent changes in government compounded the situation.

By this time he was sick and broke.

By this point Haile Melekot was discouraged and gravely sick.

By 1998 The Economist was commenting that " many people are already sick of the phrase ," and senior Labour politicians, such as Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, seemed embarrassed by its usage.