A quarter of a century later, Joseph Conrad described Amsterdam's trams in chapter 14 of The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ): From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

From afar the incident had looked much worse and was replayed repeated on slow-motion television with a media furore and press demanding disciplinary action.

From afar drawing nigh,

From afar, Lü Bu fired an arrow and it came squarely on its target.

" From afar, it seems like it would be an important step.

From afar he saw Yan sitting on a chariot under the army standard.

From afar, Lucas happens to be riding by and witness their first kiss.

From afar, Axonn watches the defeat of the Toa Nuva and the Voya Nui Resistance Team.

From afar the Siguanaba can imitate the appearance of a man's girlfriend in order to lead him astray.

From afar, it appears as if Hank, a white cop, is brutalizing a black suspect while at the same time a Latino man catches the incident on tape in a story that Earl eagerly backs up in Court.

From afar, the witch Tabitha Lennox ( knowing that Sheridan was alive ) discovered that Sheridan, Brian, and Luis were three souls forever bound by love, betrayal, and death.

From the town surveyor, Hans learned drawing and mathematics and, from a university student, some academic subjects.

From this it follows that correctness of drawing depends solely upon the principal rays ; and is independent of the sharpness or curvature of the image field.

Varlet or Squire carrying a Halberd with a thick Blade ; and Archer, in Fighting Dress, drawing the String of his Crossbow with a double-handled Winch .-- From the Miniatures of the " Jouvencel ", and the " Chroniques " of Froissart, Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century ( Imperial Library of Paris ).

From his father the young Ingres received early encouragement and instruction in drawing and music, and his first known drawing, a study after an antique cast, was made in 1789.

From the first, his paintings are characterized by a firmness of outline reflecting his often-quoted conviction that " drawing is the probity of art ".

From the outset, the company invested in research and development and embarked on an ambitious design program with a jet engine and a jet-powered fighter and airliner on the drawing boards.

From his home he traveled to Jackson, arriving there with 30 well-armed men, where he gave a speech from the steps of the Madison County courthouse, and then rode southwest to Bolivar, where he spent the night at residence of Dr. Calvin Jones, once again drawing crowds who sent him off the next morning.

From 1981 onwards the IBM PC's introduction of " Code page 437 " with 254 printable glyphs ( including 40 shapes specifically for drawing forms ), and development of Xerox Star-influenced environments such as the Macintosh, GEM and Windows made bit-mapped approaches more desirable, driving cost reductions for laser printing and higher resolution for impact dot matrix printing.

From the 1980s onwards Resnais has shown a particular interest in integrating material from other forms of popular culture into his films, drawing especially on music and the theatre.

From there guests could take a steep ( 600 feet long, rising 365 feet ) covered inclined tram to the summit ( shown in drawing at right ).

From 25 September 2004 until 18 October 2004, retained his title as Classical World Chess Champion against challenger Péter Lékó at Brissago, Switzerland, by barely drawing the match in the last game.

From the late 1960s Māori began drawing attention to breaches of the Treaty, and subsequent histories have emphasised problems with its translation.

From Buffalo they took passage over the lakes on board a steamboat named Wisconsin, the name possibly being the means of drawing them to that particular boat ; for that state was their " promised land.

From a young age, Latrobe enjoyed drawing landscapes and buildings.

From a programmer's point of view, a windowing system implements graphical primitives such as rendering fonts or drawing a line on the screen, effectively providing an abstraction of the graphics hardware from higher level elements of the graphical interface like window managers.

From these cultures Japan received new foods, a new drawing method, astronomy, geography, medical science, and a printing technique.

From 1759 Batoni lived in a large house on the Via Bocca di Leone in Rome, which included a studio as well as exhibition rooms and a drawing academy.

From the time the yabam refused to marry his brother's widow and thus perpetuate his name in Israel, the brother was considered dead, and the yebamah, by drawing off his shoe, thus declared to him that from that time on he was a mourner (" Perush Seder Halizah ," 82 ; comp.

From time to time the scene being read would be illustrated by a specially commissioned still drawing, often by Quentin Blake.

From then until the cleansing of saidin, Rand experiences great discomfort from drawing on the One Power, including feeling disgusted by the taint, and describing the One Power as sickening to hold, yet blissful to use.

From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.

* " Whenever You're Away From Me " excerptDanny playing on the clarinet, at the beach ; segué into ... soft instrumental underscoring of " Xanadu " with Sonny drawing and painting ; segué into ... extended intro to " I'm Alive " ( only a portion of which is in the soundtrack album ).

From the brightness of the F component of the solar corona and the brightness of the zodiacal light, an estimate of the particle sizes, concentrations, and spatial distribution can be derived for regions of space near the ecliptic plane.

From here the Aar flows northeast for a long distance, past the ambassador town Solothurn ( below which the Grosse Emme flows in on the right ), Aarburg ( where it is joined by the Wigger ), Olten, Aarau, near which is the junction with the Suhre, and Wildegg, where the Hallwiler Aa falls in on the right.

From his fort at Athelney, an island in the marshes near North Petherton, Alfred was able to mount an effective resistance movement, rallying the local militias from Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.

From 1960 to 1993, the Indians managed one third-place finish ( in 1968 ) and six fourth-place finishes ( in 1960, 1974 to 1976, 1990, and 1992 ) but spent the rest of the time at or near the bottom of the standings.

From Woodside to near Sandilands ( routes 1, 2 and 4 ) and from near Sandilands almost to Lloyd Park ( route 3 ) Tramlink follows the former Woodside and South Croydon Railway, including the Park Hill ( or Sandilands ) tunnels.

" From the steamboat, through a glass ( telescope ) Marlow can observe details of the station, and is surprised suddenly to see near the station house a row of posts with decapitated heads of natives mounted atop of each.

From the 1830s until his death in 1878, Cullen held several key positions near the top of the Irish hierarchy and influenced Rome's appointment of Irish bishops on four continents.

From the south his magister peditum Barbatio was to come from Milan and amass forces at Augst ( near the Rhine bend ), then set off north with 25, 000 soldiers ; Julian with 13, 000 troops would move east from Durocortorum ( Reims ).

From 1961 – 1966, the American TV network NBC carried a karaoke-like series, Sing Along with Mitch, featuring host Mitch Miller and a chorus, which superimposed the lyrics to their songs near the bottom of the TV screen for home audience participation.

From there, its transportation continues and the temperature is reduced until it exits the kiln at near room temperature.

From September 23 until November 13, 1940 she filmed in Krün near Mittenwald.

From the combined testimony of Strabo ( AD 20 ) and Tacitus ( AD 117 ), the Lombards dwelt near the mouth of the Elbe shortly after the beginning of the Christian era, next to the Chauci.

From time to time the Cockatoo is replaced with a more seasonal creature: a Turkey near Thanksgiving, a Raven near Halloween, et cetera.

From there, it flows northwest through Allegheny and Beaver counties, before making an abrupt turn to the south-southwest at the West Virginia – Ohio – Pennsylvania triple-state line ( near East Liverpool, Ohio ; Chester, West Virginia ; and Midland, Pennsylvania ).

From his retirement in his modest chacra ( cottage or hut ) at Ibaray, near Asunción, he told countless ordinary citizens who came to visit him that their revolution had been betrayed, that the change in government had only traded a Spanish-born elite for a criollo one, and that the present government was incompetent and mismanaged.

From 1979 to 1997, he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated near the border of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to power, with nominal United Nations recognition as the rightful government of Cambodia.

From 1958 to 1978, the Société Archéologique, then the Service archéologique and the University of Thessalonica uncovered the bishop's quarter and the octagonal church, large private residences, a new basilica near the Museum and two others in the necropolis to the east of the city.

From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg.

From 1923 on, Rilke increasingly had to struggle with health problems that necessitated many long stays at a sanatorium in Territet, near Montreux, on Lake Geneva.

From the sixth step the eagles raised the king and placed him in his seat, near which a golden serpent lay coiled.

: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.