It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.

Winter itch was treated by applying strong apple cider in which pulverized bloodroot had been steeped.

The batteries on the bugging device I had put on the car were still fresh enough to send out good strong signals.

Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: `` I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face ''.

The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

The original impulses came to England late ( in the sixteenth century ) and continue strong long after everyone else had gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

Lincoln's managers had been adroitly focused on this delegation as well as the others, while following Lincoln's strong dictate to " Make no contracts that bind me ".

In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

England had a very strong batting side, with Wally Hammond contributing 905 runs at an average of 113. 12, and Hobbs, Sutcliffe and Patsy Hendren all scoring heavily ; the bowling was more than adequate, without being outstanding.

Lane believed Alcott had misled him into thinking enough people would join the enterprise and developed a strong dislike for the nuclear family.

This was not a problem because they all had a strong affinity with the polis ; their own destiny and the destiny of the community were strongly linked.

" However, Whiggery as a political doctrine had little affinity for classical political economy, the tabernacle of the Manchester School and William Gladstone.

Boccaccio was apprenticed to the bank, but it was a trade for which he had no affinity.

Hergé had a strong affinity with painting.

From his earliest days, Audubon had an affinity for birds.

The League's collective security system required nations to act, if necessary, against states they considered friendly, and in a way that might endanger their national interests, to support states for which they had no normal affinity.

In the 19th century, the French chemist Marcellin Berthelot and the Danish chemist Julius Thomsen had attempted to quantify affinity using heats of reaction.

Jean Przyluski had sought to find an Austric ( Kol or Munda ) affinity for Kamboja.

Rome had an affinity for the people of Campania, who, like themselves, traced their backgrounds to the Etruscans.

The Stoors, the second most numerous, were shorter and stockier and had an affinity for water, boats and swimming.

Radagast had a strong affinity for – and relationship with – wild animals, and it seemed his greatest concern was with the kelvar and olvar ( flora and fauna ) of Middle-earth.

The Paris of Zola, Manet, France, Degas, Fauré, a group that had assembled more on the basis of status affinity than actual artistic tastes, indulging in the refinements of Dandyism, was at the opposite end of the economic, social, and political spectrum from the gritty, tough-talking, die-hard, emigrant artists that peopled Montparnasse.

You said it had affinity to Jane Eyre: it has — now and then — only what an advantage has Dickens in his varied knowledge of men and things !".

It has been suggested that Alys had become the mistress of Richard's own father, King Henry II, and possibly the mother of an illegitimate child ; a marriage between Richard and Alys would therefore be technically impossible for religious reasons of affinity.

A popular image of Boone which emerged in later years is that of the backwoodsman who had little affinity for " civilized " society, moving away from places like Boonesborough when they became " too crowded ".

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, Boy George discusses how he had felt an affinity towards Crisp during his childhood, as they faced similar problems as young homosexual people living in homophobic surroundings.

:" Renaissance men developed a delightful, yet horrible way of dealing with their mad denizens: they were put on a ship and entrusted to mariners because folly, water, and sea, as everyone then ' knew ', had an affinity for each other.

So Daniel Guérin in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how " Spanish anarcho-syndicalism had long been concerned to safeguard the autonomy of what it called " affinity groups.

So Daniel Guérin in Anarchism: From Theory to Practice reports how " Spanish anarcho-syndicalism had long been concerned to safeguard the autonomy of what it called " affinity groups.

starting in < strike > Faust </ strike > Eric ) The Bursar is a quiet, reserved person, who took the job of University treasurer because he had an affinity for numbers ( the Archchancellor describes him as " one of those idiot servants ") and there was less competition for the role than other faculty posts.

His brief and undistinguished tenure as second Kapellmeister at Salzburg only reinforced this opinion: Wolf had neither the temperament, the conducting technique nor the affinity for the decidedly non-Wagnerian repertoire to be successful, and within a year had again returned to Vienna to teach in much the same circumstances as before.

Robert's differences with the Carrick affinity regarding the conduct of the war and his continued failure or unwillingness to deal with Buchan in the north led to the political convulsion of November 1384 when the Council removed the king's authority to govern and appointed Carrick as lieutenant of the kingdom — a coup d ’ état had taken place.

Bailey said in an interview that Wallace had been " airbrushed out of history ", and that he feels a " real affinity " with him.