`` That's what started all the trouble in the first place.

Old Commodore Forsythe, who had once lost a fifty-dollar bet on whether he could get both motors started and turn on the running lights without accidentally turning on something else first.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

The men in the boats had started yelling happily at first sight of the officer, two of them calling him Billy.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

However, we started with the first row of bars and worked our way back.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

Indeed, from the moment the reports of the coming issue first started circulating in Dallas last January, the inquiries and demand for the stock started building up.

What a swinging group they must have been when they first started entertaining!!

This day Palmer had started first.

Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

He started badly, losing the first two Tests heavily after Australia were caught on sticky wickets.

After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

Mawson Station started using classic Volkswagen Beetles, the first production cars to be used in Antarctica.

The press was started by Aldus based on his love of classics, and at first printed new copies of Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek and Latin classics.

The junior King Béla IV started, with the authorization of Pope Honorius III, to take back the royal domains in his provinces that Andrew had granted to his partisans during the first half of his reign.

) In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started the use of Arabic numerals, which appear for the first time in a royal document of 1456.

Around this time, he started to share a home with Heather Stoney, an actress he had first met ten years earlier.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.

During all this time Roy continued to paint, first only on weekends, and then, as the family business permitted, for longer periods.

In the best tradition, he first taught himself to see, then to draw with accuracy and assurance, and then to paint.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

With its coating of gold radiator paint removed -- a gaucherie of some earlier tenant -- it will now occupy its rightful place in the oval Blue Room on the first floor of the White House.

* 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

Similar supports likewise can serve both: painting generally involves the application of liquid paint onto prepared canvas or panels, but sometimes an underdrawing is drawn first on that same support.

Whilst Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 ( and would continue to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948 ), the first abstract collages, influenced in particular by recent works by Hans Arp, would appear in late 1918, which Schwitters dubbed Merz after a fragment of found text from the sentence Commerz Und Privatbank in his picture Das Merzbild, Winter 1918 – 19.

" Digital paint was also used for the first time in parts of Princess Mononoke in order to meet release deadlines.

Although oil paint was first used for the Buddhist Paintings by Indian and Chinese painters in western Afghanistan sometime between the fifth and ninth centuries, it did not gain popularity until the 15th century.

Such paints cure by a process called coalescence where first the water, and then the trace, or coalescing, solvent, evaporate and draw together and soften the binder particles and fuse them together into irreversibly bound networked structures, so that the paint will not redissolve in the solvent / water that originally carried it.

For instance it does not matter if you cut in the ceiling, or paint the window trim first and paint the walls last or vies versa.

It is uncertain who developed it first, but these highly portable easels, with telescopic legs and built-in paint box and palette, made treks into the forest and up the hillsides less onerous.

The Latin word Picti first occurs in a panegyric written by Eumenius in AD 297 and is taken to mean " painted or tattooed people " ( from Latin pingere " to paint ",; pictus, " painted ", cf.

During the first season of Herman's Head, Smith taught herself to paint by copying other artists.

During the first season of Herman's Head, Smith taught herself to paint by copying other artists.

In addition to Seurat, the roots of cubism are to be found in the two distinct tendencies of Cézanne's later work: first his breaking of the painted surface into small multifaceted areas of paint, thereby emphasizing the plural viewpoint given by binocular vision, and second his interest in the simplification of natural forms into cylinders, spheres, and cones.

A reverse painter's algorithm is sometimes used, in which objects nearest to the viewer are painted first — with the rule that paint must never be applied to parts of the image that are already painted.

There he was allowed to draw and paint imprisoned Russian officers, and his commander, Karl Moser ( who assumed that Schiele was a painter and decorator when he first met him ), even gave him a disused store room to use as a studio.

It was first commercialized by the paint company Sherwin-Williams and saw use in the late 1940s.

The use of overall paint or varnish decoration on large pieces of furniture was first popularised in Venice ( then later throughout Italy ).

While continuing to paint religious and mythological works, he increasingly devoted his output to landscapes, his style at first taking after that of Alessandro Magnasco, and more lastingly, of Marco Ricci.

In this period Toulouse-Lautrec had his first encounter with a prostitute ( reputedly sponsored by his friends ), which led him to paint his first painting of prostitutes in Montmartre, a woman rumoured to be called Marie-Charlotte.