Far off, in the dusk, he heard voices singing, muffled but strong.

Of the four Portuguese Navy sloops — the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, the NRP Bartolomeu Dias, the NRP João de Lisboa and the NRP Gonçalves Zarco — which were deployed to patrol the waters off Portuguese colonies in the Far East, only one, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, had been deployed to Portuguese India.

Thrawn largely goes against the Chiss rule of non-aggression, repeatedly baiting his enemies to commit an act of aggression against the forces under his command, but colludes with Admiral Ar ' alani ( who had commanded the task force that fought off an initial incursion from the Far Outsiders ) to eliminate the Vagaari to prevent a two-front war.

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.

The Family Islands are a group of continental islands lying a short distance off the coast, about mid-way between Cairns and Townsville, in Far North Queensland, Australia.

In 1453, the Ottoman Turks took over Constantinople, which cut off ( or significantly increased the cost of ) overland trade routes to the Far East, so alternate routes had to be found.

The closure of the United Reformed Church, Water Lane left Shelley with two places of worship: the Methodist Church, off Far bank and the Church of England's Emmanuel Church, Huddersfield Road.

: Far off resounds the roaring of the lion, what time Parjanya fills the sky with rain-cloud.

Only a fraction of the Far East squadron was present off the Pagoda Anchorage on the morning of 23 August.

The RFA performed important service to the Far East Fleet off Korea from 1950 until 1953, when sustained carrier operations were again mounted in Pacific waters.

For some of the earlier BriTANicK web videos their outro would be the song " Far, Far, Away " off of the album Five Iron Frenzy 2: Electric Boogaloo.

A Phoenix unit known as The Far Mulberry sank off Pagham and lying at about 10 metres is an easily accessible scuba diving site.

More recently, Dingwall suffered widespread flooding during storms in late October 2006, during which the weather cut off much of the Highlands north of Inverness, including the A9 and Far North Line for a significant period of time.

* Koba, Queensland, an island more formally known as Fitzroy Island, off the coast of Far North Queensland, Australia, 22 km east of the city of Cairns

: Far off I stand with tearful eyes,

When the newly installed radar at Iba Airfield which first picked up the tracks of unidentified planes off the Zambales coast on 3 December and Clark Field reported its lone plane overflight for the second successive night Colonel George, now Chief of Staff of the 5th Interceptor Command, had gone to Far East Air Force headquarters at Nielson Field immediately to report not only the presence of the planes but his belief that the two flights were co-operating with each other and were the immediate preliminary to Japanese attack.

Chang and Halliday write that “ Shi Zhe observed that Kang was living in a state of deep fear of Mao in this period ” because of his murky past, which had been raised with Mao in many letters from cadres and by the Russians, yet " Far from being put off by Kang ’ s murky past, Mao positively relished it.

* November 26 – After taking off from Hal Far, Malta, a Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force Fairey Flycatcher lands aboard the British aircraft carrier, achieving the first night carrier landing by a fleet fighter.

Far off, Jack, along with Messerach, a normal mummy that had been inside the sarcophagus, watch the explosion, and the cab-driver, standing in the shadow, reiterates to the player as he walks off into the night that " the blood of Caine controls our fate ... farewell, vampire "

** From October 4 to December 13, The Offspring's " You're Gonna Go Far, Kid ", a song off their new album, stays # 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 11 weeks, becoming the band's biggest hit to date.

Fuca's early voyages were to the Far East, and he claimed to have arrived in New Spain in 1587 when, off Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, the English privateer Thomas Cavendish seized his galleon Santa Ana and deposited him ashore.

* Far left ( joining far right ): Lisenser Ferner leading up to the Brunnenkogel with the Vord Brunnenkogel cut off.

Far from any chapel or cathédrale, the shepherd would thrust his opened laguiole blade-down into the earth, exposing the visible cross on the handle for purposes of prayer.

Sitting on many trade and migration routes, Afghanistan may be called the ' Central Asian roundabout ' since routes converge from the Middle East, from the Indus Valley through the passes over the Hindu Kush, from the Far East via the Tarim Basin, and from the adjacent Eurasian Steppe.

Commencing in the state capital, Brisbane, it passes through areas close to the eastern coast to Cairns in Far North Queensland.

The Stuart Highway passes through the Far North region and continues to Adelaide, but its proper routing is from Port Augusta.

The Viking Way enters the village from the north on Far Lane and passes south along High Street then briefly along Millers Road.

Once clear of Market Bosworth station, the train accelerates again towards Far Coton road bridge and then passes into a left-hand curve in a cutting.

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.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

Following the release of Modern Times, Chaplin left with Goddard for another trip to the Far East.

Smith regrouped with the remaining church in Far West, Missouri, but tensions soon escalated into violent conflicts with the old Missouri settlers.

* 1954, Far Eastern Government and Politics: China and Japan ( with Djang Chu and Ardath W. Burks ), Van Nostrand

Far from rewarding his loyalty, they participated in the effort to convict him by depriving him of the money and information which might have provided him with some legal defence.

He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.

In the second half of 1945, Thomas began reading for the BBC Radio programme, Book of Verse, broadcast weekly to the Far East providing Thomas with a regular income and bringing him into contact with Louis MacNeice, a congenial drinking companion whose advice Thomas cherished.

" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.

In the latter stages of the war he was sent to the Pacific Far East to serve with the United States Office for Strategic Services.

In 1935, Gardner attended the Second Congress for Prehistoric Research in the Far East in Manila, Philippines, acquainting himself with several experts in the field.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

Far more patients may experience a very mild form of IC / PBS, in which they have no visible wounds in their bladder, yet struggle with symptoms of pain, frequency, and / or urgency.

He wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern (" Long Ago ( and Far Away )"), Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen.

Contemporary Jainism is a small but influential religious minority with as many as 6 million followers in India and growing immigrant communities in North America, Western Europe, the Far East, Australia and elsewhere.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

Gama's voyage was successful in reaching India and this permitted the Portuguese to trade with the Far East directly by sea, thus challenging older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the Spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean.

Kornilov paid much attention to the prospects of cooperation between Russia and China in the Far East and met with the future president of China, Chiang Kai-shek.

Ullmann appeared with Laurence Olivier in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far in 1977.

The Kirtland era ended in 1838, after the failure of a church-sponsored bank caused widespread defections, and Smith regrouped with the remaining church in Far West, Missouri.