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Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
Far away in Baghdad, the current Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, had long been planning to depose the Umayyad who dared to call himself emir of al-Andalus.
Far away ( for ), the fields approach the limiting form of a radiating spherical wave:
The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.
" I cannot let you go "... " Far away in Australia, soon will fate be kind.
Far and away the most popular of these was the 6507, which was used in the Atari 2600 and in Atari disk drives.
Far away from the narrowest part of the beam, the spread is roughly linear with distance — the laser beam forms a cone of light in the " far field ".
Not all of the ring material would have necessarily been swept up right away ; the thickened crust of the Far Side suggests that a second moon about 1, 000-km in diameter formed in a Lagrange point of the Moon ; after tens of millions of years, as the two moons migrated outward from the Earth, solar tidal effects would have made the Lagrange orbit unstable, resulting in a slow-velocity collision that would have ' pancaked ' the smaller moon onto what is now the Far Side.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
By the 14th century the castle was purchasing goods from across western Europe, with wine being imported from France, venison from parks as far away as Northamptonshire and spices from the Far East through London-based merchants.
Far and away the most successful effort was the Schoolhouse Rock series on ABC, which became a television classic ; ABC also had several other short-form animated featurettes, including Time for Timer and The Bod Squad, that had long runs.
Far away clouds or snowy mountaintops will seem yellow as well ; that effect is not obvious on clear days, but very pronounced when clouds are covering the line of sight reducing the blue hue from scattered sunlight.
Far from being delighted, Antigonus was angry with his son and struck him, calling him a barbarian and drove him away.
Far away from the power base, with few support armies and supplies, Liu led self-sufficient soldiers and broke rounds of heavy blockade, while boosting his strength back to the original 100, 000.
From 1935 to 1939 the base was the main radio interception unit for the Far East Combined Bureau, which was four miles away across the harbour in the naval dockyard.
Far away sprites are drawn before close ones.
Far from turning people away, this ascetic rule attracted thousands.
After the Japanese land invasion of the Philippines on 24 December 1941, the mission of Fifth Interceptor Command changed to provide ground defense of Luzon, with ground and air echelon personnel of unequipped Far East Air Force units on Luzon attached to fight as ground infantry units during the Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 42 ) after their aircraft were destroyed or evacuated to locations away from Luzon.
Far away from the aperture, the angle at which the first minimum occurs, measured from the direction of incoming light, is given by the approximate formula:
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Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
I have just returned from a seven-week trip to Europe and the Far East.
Japan joined the Allied Powers in World War I and attacked German colonial possessions in the Far East, adding former German possessions to its own empire.
This passage from Ruxton's Life in the Far West illustrates the common use of the word in spoken form, " Travler, marm, this niggur's no travler ; I ar ' a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!
Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.
# A Flock Of Seagulls-" I Ran ( So Far Away )"
Far from his supply lines, he faced a larger Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor Alexander I of Russia personally present.
* ( 2003 ) Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
* In the collection of short stories and essays by Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan, the author is told the popular story of a girl that swims to her lover guided by a lantern, and he comments on the similarities with the western story: "—" So ," I said to myself, " in the Far East, it is poor Hero that does the swimming.
Klein, " Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation ", which had originally appeared in Nyctalops magazine ; two stories by Campbell (" Before the Storm " and The Gap "), " As Far as I Can Recall " by Campbell ( autobiographical essay ); and Mike Ashley's bibliography on Campbell which was not superseded until The Core of Ramsey Campbell ( 1995 ).
Far from quenching her attraction, this merely confirms her hopes: " Oh Godfrey, now I know you love me ... You do or you wouldn't have lost your temper.
Conein asserted that " I have it on very good authority of very many people, that Big Minh gave the order ", as did William Colby, the director of the CIA's Far Eastern division.
Far from expectant of victory, in a letter to Varina Davis, Breckinridge bemoaned " I trust I have the courage to lead a forlorn hope.
Popular tracks from this period include " Big Log " ( a Top 20 hit in 1983 ), " In the Mood " ( 1983 ), " Little by Little " ( from 1985's Shaken ' n ' Stirred ), " Far Post " ( originally only on the B-side of " Burning Down One Side " but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations ), " Tall Cool One " ( a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen ) and " I Believe " ( from 1993's Fate of Nations ), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac.
It made heavy use of style-conscious New Romantic synthpop acts, with " I Ran ( So Far Away )" ( 1982 ) by A Flock of Seagulls generally considered the first hit by a British act to enter the Billboard Top Ten as a result of exposure through video.
Under Cooke's leadership, the group signed with Specialty Records and recorded the hits " Peace in the Valley ", " How Far Am I From Canaan?
On June 20, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall informed MacArthur, " Both the Secretary of War ( Stimson ) and I are much concerned about the situation in the Far East.
It is possible to hear the squeak of the pedal in several recordings, including " Since I've Been Loving You ", " The Ocean ", " The Rain Song ", " Over the Hills and Far Away ", " Dancing Days ", " The Crunge ", " Houses of the Holy ", " Ten Years Gone ", " Bonzo's Montreux " and the live version of " I Can't Quit You Baby " on Coda and " All My Love " on In Through The Out Door.
The group had a string of international hit singles including " I Ran ( So Far Away )", " Space Age Love Song ," " Wishing ( If I Had a Photograph of You )" and " The More You Live, the More You Love ", and became notable in the 1980s for their MTV video for the song " I Ran ( So Far Away )".

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