The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

" He also had predictable habits, which were noted by the Viennese press, such as his daily visit to his favourite " Red Hedgehog " tavern in Vienna, and his habit of walking with his hands firmly behind his back ( once again, like Beethoven ), which led to a caricature of him in this pose walking alongside a red hedgehog.

The early versions of 60-100 MHz P5 Pentiums had a problem in the floating point unit that resulted in incorrect ( but predictable ) results from some division operations.

Jung had a better relationship with his father because he thought him to be predictable and thought his mother to be very problematic.

This had the predictable effect of causing runaway inflation and by the time Diocletian came to power, the old coinage of the Roman Empire had nearly collapsed.

Raven discovered that the Japanese had divided the month into three 10-days periods, and within each period they used the keys of the first day with small predictable changes.

The Great War had been profitable to P & WMT, but the peace brought a predictable glut to the machine tool market, as contracts with governments were canceled and the market in used, recently built tools competed against new ones.

ARCNET had slightly lower best-case performance ( viewed by a single stream ), but was much more predictable.

However, the resignation of long-serving but at that point unpopular Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the well-received election of John Major as her successor had seen the comfortable Labour lead in the opinion polls wiped out and in the 17 months leading up to the election its outcome had become much less predictable.

Roger Ebert concluded, " Earth Girls Are Easy is silly and predictable and as permanent as a feather in the wind, but I had fun watching it.

Plastic had the advantages of being much firmer than leather, not changing shape over time, and having predictable friction characteristics wet or dry.

* 1854-The French astronomer Leverrier showed that a storm in the Black Sea could be followed across Europe and would have been predictable if the telegraph had been used.

Although he had a strong Chinese contingent, Mongke relied heavily on Muslim and Mongol administrators, and launched a series of economic reforms to make government expenses more predictable.

A recalcitrant Margo Gaffney had angrily criticised the decoy fire idea as weak and predictable, claiming that for anyone to be fooled it had better be a pretty big fire.

Shipstead's vote against U. S. entry into the United Nations was entirely predictable to anyone who had followed his career.

By the time Carlo Goldoni started writing new scripts in the 18th century, the " improvised " comedy had become tired and predictable.

: If I were to drink a quart of blood and, concealing what I had done, come to the emergency room of any hospital vomiting blood, the behavior of the staff would be quite predictable.

However, in comparison to the earlier MG FF cannon, the MG 151 had a higher muzzle velocity which gave it a more predictable trajectory and higher impact velocity / longer range.

Kyle Gann, himself a minimalist composer, has argued that minimalism represented a predictable return to simplicity after the development of an earlier style had run its course to an extreme and unsurpassable complexity.

") Additionally, although Hood's general plan was plausible, the federal forces being divided, the failure of the units to be formed and positioned prior to the Union's crossing the river, Hardee's failure to commit his troops fully, and Hood's decision to continue the attack when he discovered he had lost his advantage, resulted in a severe and predictable defeat.

* CE 9 April 1962, " Chais d ’ Armagnac ": The Conseil d ' État adjudged that, since a flood had occurred 69 years before the one that caused the damage at issue, the latter flood was predictable.

* Administrative tribunal of Grenoble, 19 June 1974, " Dame Bosvy ": An avalanche was judged to be predictable since another had occurred around 50 years before.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

Hogan got down from the saddle and had a look inside.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.

Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

The English schools preceded ours, and by the time we got into it they had learned a lot about the techniques of propaganda and its teaching.

But it had largely disappeared on account of protest by the whites and through growing resentment on the part of the Negroes as they became more educated and got better wages.

They had lunch at a sidewalk cafe overlooking the intersection of two broad, busy, unpicturesque streets, and coming home they got lost in the Metro ; ;

I got a girl in trouble and we had to get married.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

She got so drunk I had to take her home.

The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.

Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.

An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.

The policeman got a confused, funny look on his face, and he had answered kind of politely, `` Now, look here, lady: I know you got to entertain these kids and all.

And when they had got to their little lawn, they had had a most twirlingly magnificent time.