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 near

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 ).

All went home happy except the Newport police, who feared that the throng departing at 6:35 might meet head-on the night crowd drawing nigh, and those deprived of their happy hour at the cocktail bar.

*:" We had often heard in the course of his lectures Haji Sayyid Kazem stating the fact, that the day of the Manifestation was drawing nigh.