While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The West had long since forgotten the events of 1919, but it was not so easy for the Red leaders, who felt that they had suffered great injustice in that period.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

the verse of Beowulf or of The Iliad and The Odyssey was not easy to create but was not impossible for poets who had developed their talents perforce in earning a livelihood.

With Lizzie in the barn, the screen door unlocked and Bridget upstairs in her attic room, he would have had free and easy access to the house.

He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money

Shortly after Lee's surrender, a general had asked Lincoln how the defeated Confederates should be treated, and Lincoln replied, " Let ' em up easy.

In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.

Because there is a natural season to farming and herding, it is easy to count and determine if a surplus had been gained after the crops had been harvested or the young animals weaned.

The enemy directly in their path ... realised to their horror that Athenians, far from providing the easy pickings for their bowmen, as they had first imagined, were not going to be halted ...

The aediles had likewise a superintendence over the public buildings, and it is not easy to define with accuracy the respective duties of the censors and aediles, but it may be remarked in general that the superintendence of the aediles had more of a police character, while that of the censors were more financial in subject matter.

Beria was no easy man to defeat, and his ethnicisation policies ( that a local or republican leaders had to have ethnic origins, and speak the language of the given area ) proved to be a tool to strengthen the MVD's grip on local party organs.

Thus, this supposedly distinctive feature was easy to use, but had nothing to do with actual phylogenic relationship.

Steve Dahl, who had spearheaded Disco Demolition Night, denied any racist or homophobic undertones to the promotion, saying, " It's really easy to look at it historically, from this perspective, and attach all those things to it.

Other substances offered slightly better performance, but galena was most widely used because it had the advantage of being cheap and easy to obtain.

That was easy to shoot compared to the Manhattan Island prison sequences which had few lights, mainly torch lights, like feudal England.

After the discovery of the hydrogen bonded A: T and C: G pairs, Watson and Crick soon had their anti-parallel, double helical model of DNA, with the hydrogen bonds at the core of the helix providing a way to " unzip " the two complementary strands for easy replication: the last key requirement for a likely model of the genetic molecule.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

Plus the fact that Siddo not only had the normal ( to Earthmen ) three genders of masculine, feminine, and neuter, but the two extra of inanimate and spiritual.

" Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell " that their " ambiguous choice " was " dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice " Charlotte contributed 20 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

Although many municipalities had enacted laws against cross-dressing, some women would socialize in bars as butches: dressed in men's clothing and mirroring traditional masculine behavior.

The sociologist Regina Oboler examined the role of gender in the U. S. Pagan community, arguing that although the movement had been constant in its support for the equality of men and women ever since its foundation, there was still an essentialist view of gender engrained within it, with female deities being accorded traditional western feminine traits and male deities being similarly accorded what western society saw as masculine traits.

It was a principle of stanza-formation that masculine and feminine rhymes had to alternate in the stanza.

In a group of eighteen behaviorally masculine girls ( mean age of assessment: 9 years ), all reported a homosexual sexual orientation at adolescence, and eight had requested sex reassignment.

Despite the importance of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, and others female authors, as well as Moore's early heroine, sword and sorcery has had a strongly masculine bias.

He adopted the stage name because the name Marion had since his birth became a female name and he felt at odds with the masculine cowboy characters he portrayed.

The process of case collapse was also already underway in Old English, e. g. in strong masculine nouns, where the nominative and accusative cases had become identical.

The missionaries discovered that the Indians, who regarded labor as degrading to the masculine sex, had to be taught industry in order to learn how to be self-supportive.

The missionaries discovered that the Indians, who regarded labor as degrading to the masculine sex, had to be taught industry in order to learn how to be self-supportive.

Cher Ami ( French for " dear friend ", in the masculine ) was a registered Black Check Cock homing pigeon which had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U. S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I and had been trained by American pigeoneers.

Middle Indo-Aryan languages ( named MIA ) generally had three genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter ), and some modern Indo-Aryan languages retain this old system even today.

Schlegel explains why there was female superiority as that the Hopi believed in " life as the highest good ... the female principle ... activated in women and in Mother Earth ... as its source " and that the Hopi " were not in a state of continual war with equally matched neighbors " and " had no standing army " so that " the Hopi lacked the spur to masculine superiority " and, within that, as that women were central to institutions of clan and household and predominated " within the economic and social systems ( in contrast to male predominance within the political and ceremonial systems )", the Clan Mother, for example, being empowered to overturn land distribution by men if she felt it was unfair, since there was no " countervailing ... strongly centralized, male-centered political structure ".

Middle Indo-Aryan languages ( named MIA ) generally had three genders ( masculine, feminine and neuter ), and some modern Indo-Aryan languages retain this old system even today.

Another important fact is the number of women novelists who were successful in the 19th century, even though they often had to use a masculine pseudonym.

According to The Handbook of English linguistics, the suffix-man had the meaning " person " in Old English but in present-day English is masculine and can be used to denote people by office and occupation.

The pots have specific masculine or feminine designs including whether the head had straight ( male ) or braided ( female ) hair and whether the pot was striped ( male ) or checked ( female ).

Because of the similarities in morphology of feminine and masculine grammatical gender inflections in Indo-European languages, there is a theory that in an early stage the Proto-Indo-European language had only two grammatical genders: animate and inanimate / neuter.

Like the masculine praenomina, the months of the old Roman Calendar had names based on the numbers five through ten: Quintilis ( July ), Sextilis ( August ), September, October, November, and December.

This is allegedly shown by the fact that the original Greek uses the feminine demonstrative pronoun when he says " upon this rock " ( ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ ); whereas, grammatically, if Jesus had been referring to Peter, he would have used the masculine.