At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.

It took me a moment to realize what was odd about that panel: there was a gimbaled compass welded to it, which rocked gently back and forth as the Land Rover bounced about.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.

Seems like she's willing, but the male just flops around all day like the bashful boy who took Jeannie May behind the barn and then didn't know what to do, and the people at the zoo haven't got any vulture chicks to show for their trouble.

He took his glass, clinked it against mine, and said, `` Toujours gai, what the hell ''!!

Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.

The Angles is a modern term for a Germanic people, who took their name from the region of Angeln, a district located in what is today Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Various myths have been told around what happened after Artemis took her.

Brigham Young took Smith's advice and led his followers, known in modern times as the Mormon pioneers, to Nebraska and then in 1847 to what became the Utah Territory.

Ancillon is mainly remembered for what he did for education in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the share he took, in co-operation with Gottfried Leibniz, in founding the Academy of Berlin.

In 1934, Dwane Wallace, with the help of his brother Dwight, took control of the company and began the process of building it into what would become a global success.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

Replica Crannóg on Loch TayIn reality, crannogs took on many different forms and methods of construction based upon what was available in the immediate landscape ; there is no single " correct " way to construct a crannog.

As the Auto Union company originally was situated in Saxony in what became the German Democratic Republic, it took some time for it to regroup after the war ended.

It was at the Opry that she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go where her heart took her and not to care what others thought.

The second law Hegel took from Aristotle, and it is equated with what scientists call phase transitions.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, " This is my body which is for you.

Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment.

For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what was soon nicknamed " the Via Panisperna boys " ( after the name of the street where the Physics Institute was ).

He believed that not all learned individuals were qualified to doctor others, and while ministers took on several roles in the early years of the colony, including that of caring for the sick, they were now expected to stay out of state and civil affairs.

While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.

A former aide recalled that Ribbentrop threw the German Embassy into chaos due to his erratic personality: He rose, muttering bad-temperedly ... Dressed in his pyjamas, he received the junior secretaries and press attachés in his bathroom ... He scolded, threatened, gesticulated with his razor and shouted at his valet ... As he took his bath, he ordered people to be summoned from Berlin, accepted and cancelled, appointed and dismissed, and dictated through the door to a nervous stenographer ... He cursed people in their absence, calling them saboteurs and communists ... It was my task to put his calls through ; his valet stood within splashing distance holding a white telephone ... Ribbentrop believed only ministers ranked above him: everyone else, including his ambassadorial colleagues, had to kept waiting on the line.

These features are believed to be innovations that took place in Proto-Germanic, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European that was the source of all Germanic languages.

He believed he could bridge historic differences, especially regarding religion, and he took that belief back to India where he tried to implement it.

He was also well aware of the infighting between Hayden and Hawke, and believed he'd caught Labor before Hawke took the leadership.

He believed that the large, impersonal, and often ugly apartment blocks built in the 1960s and 1970s had ruined old neighborhoods, and took away privacy and dignity from people.

Former Jets linebacker Larry Grantham believed that the Raiders ' defense often took every opportunity to cheap shot Namath.

But Diller believed strongly in the concept, and so took his fourth-network idea with him when he moved to 20th Century Fox in 1984, where Fox's then freshly installed proprietor, Rupert Murdoch was a more interested listener.

Aborigines believed that taking one's picture took part of one's soul away.

The Guru Granth Sahib also says that Bhagat Namdev and Bhagat Kabir, who were both believed to be Hindus, both attained salvation though they were born before Sikhism took root and were clearly not Sikhs. This highlights and reinforces the Guru's saying that " peoples of other faiths " can join with God as true and also at the same time signify that Sikhism is not the exclusive path for liberation.

Silver is believed to have purifing effects ; a belief that likely arose from the observation that water kept in a silver pitcher took longer to go scummy ; in real-life, silver has been shown to have antibacterial proporties, making it quite useful in medicine.

He was also known as the fifth sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the sun that took over when the fourth sun was expelled from the sky.

It is believed that this process took a short time, by geological standards, lasting between 500, 000 and 600, 000 years.

It is believed to have fallen due to a peace party opening a small door in the wall to negotiate a peace, but the Romans charged through the door and took the city, killing Archimedes in the process.

As soil degradation took hold, it is believed that the marsupials adapted to the more basic flora of Australia.

Later work confirmed that tube unreliability was not as serious an issue as generally believed ; the 1946 ENIAC, with over 17, 000 tubes, had a tube failure ( which took 15 minutes to locate ) on average every two days.

Some had even believed that the issue was enough to cast North from office and restore Pitt as Prime Minister-although the ultimate result was to strengthen the position of North who took credit for his firm handling of the crisis and was able to fill the cabinet with his own supporters.

It is believed that the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity took place at the close of this century.

Hunt believed that it was Patrese's muscling past that caused the McLaren and Lotus to touch, but Patrese argues that he was already well ahead of the pair before the accident took place.

Some historians believed that the Duke of Wroclaw took the opportunity from his homage to King Rudolph I to expose him the possibility of becoming King of Poland.

In 1164 Frederick took what are believed to be the relics of the " Biblical Magi " ( the Wise Men or Three Kings ) from Milan and gave them as a gift ( or as loot ) to the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald of Dassel.

Sam Cahoon, the janitor that Dillinger first took hostage in the jail, believed that Dillinger had carved the gun with a razor and some shelving in his cell.

Augustine of Hippo asserted that pagans " believed in what they read in their own books " and took Arion to be a historical individual.

* 2138 BC: Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on 24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.