And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.

I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

Can your plant nurse be replaced by a trained first-aid man who works full-time on some other assignment??

No effort is made in the same studies to present information on regional or national demand trends in these skills or to consider whether regional or national demands for other skills might provide much better opportunities for the youth to be trained.

It is believed that Hudson was related to other seafaring men of the Muscovy Company and was trained on company ships.

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

Omari occasionally trained on simulators at the FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach, Florida together with Mohand al-Shehri and Saeed al-Ghamdi.

The development of Aelbert Cuyp, who was trained as a landscape painter, may be roughly sketched in three phases based on the painters who most influenced him during that time and the subsequent artistic characteristics that are apparent in his paintings.

In Austria, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist insurgents ( The Black Hand ) is blamed for igniting World War I after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

It can also be tuned to E-A-D, like its cousin, the domra, to make it easier for those trained on the domra to play the instrument, and still have a balalaika sound.

However, following a further independent review on the future structure of the British Army-18 July 2011 " Future Reserves 2020-The Independent Commission to review the United Kingdom's Reserve Forces "-it was announced that the Regular Army will be reduced to a trained strength of 82, 000 while the Territorial Army will be increased to a trained strength of around 30, 000 personnel.

On location, there is usually just one camera to film an interview, and it's usually trained on the interviewee.

She also trained for the mission STS-83 to be the backup for Donald A. Thomas ; however, as he recovered on time, she did not fly that mission.

Ley was best known for his writings on rocketry and related topics, but he was trained in paleontology, and wrote a number of books about animals.

He was trained, supported and funded by the white regimes in South Africa ( SA ) and Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) in return for permission to set up a secret listening post on the islands.

As a result, the focus on more highly trained soldiers equipped with, for example, 7. 62 mm NATO firing rifles, such as the U. S. Marine Corps Designated Marksman Rifle variant of the M14, has increased somewhat.

Anticipation grew as the predicted date for the collisions approached, and astronomers trained terrestrial telescopes on Jupiter.

When Danican's poorly trained men attacked, on 13 Vendémiaire, 1795 — October 5, 1795, in the calendar used in France, at the time — Napoleon ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot into the mob, an act that became known as the " whiff of grapeshot ".

Choreographers are generally university trained and are typically employed for particular projects or, more rarely may work on contract as the resident choreographer for a specific dance company.

At independence on 30 June 1960, the army suffered from a dramatic deficit of trained leaders, particularly in the officer corps.

François Xavier Tourte ( 1747 – 25 April 1835 ) was a Frenchman who, though trained as a watchmaker, soon changed to making bows for playing classical string instruments such as the violin.

As an elementary school student, Eubanks was trained in violin, trumpet, and piano at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.

He started to sing at an early age and is classically trained, playing several instruments, most notably, the violin and viola.

As a child, Donald was classically trained in the upright bass and violin.

Hundreds of students have been trained in vocal, violin, veena and flute at the Ayyanar College of Music.

The students of this college were trained to appear for junior, senior, and proficiency examinations in flute, violin, veena and vocal music.

Hartwell, a classically trained violin player, got offered a job touring with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on the East Coast of the US sometime in the late 1990s.

Lombardo formed the folk rock duo John & Mary with the classically trained Mary Ramsey, who played violin and viola for 10, 000 Maniacs and sang backing vocals on the 1993 album MTV Unplugged.

Ramsey is a classically trained violinist who has been playing the violin since age 5.

He trained on the violin under Giovanni Battista Somis and Giuseppe Tartini.

As teacher of piano, cello and counterpoint and composition at the Academy, Schmidt trained numerous musicians, conductors and composers who later achieved fame.

Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents, and trained on the piano.

At age six Mussorgsky began receiving piano lessons from his mother, herself a trained pianist.

Joseph Ginsburg was a classically trained musician whose profession was playing the piano in cabarets and casinos ; he taught his children to play the piano.

Luc Ferrari was born in Paris, and was trained in music at a very young age, studying the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and composition under Arthur Honegger.

She was 13 years younger than her beautiful sister, diva Maria Malibran, but her father made Pauline his favorite and trained her on the piano and also gave her singing lessons.

Rodney Perfect II is two and a half but reads at a third grade level, performed his piano composition for Queen Elizabeth II and was potty trained at 6 months.

These participants were trained to use both fine and gross motor movements by learning how to use the piano and drums.

When Battersby and Mann joined the band it was their first musical venture, although Battersby had previously been classically trained in the piano.

While piano tuning is normally done by trained technicians, guitars such as acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and electric bass guitars are usually tuned by the guitarist themselves.

Yeston noted in a 1997 interview, " My mother was trained in classical piano, and her father was a cantor in a synagogue.

He started to play the piano when he was six years old and has trained in several musical genres.

) The piano compositions of the great composers often sold well among amateurs, despite the fact that, starting with Beethoven, they were often far too hard for anyone but a trained virtuoso to play well.

Music brought them together-she was trained in piano and voice-and Otto played the French horn and had a good tenor voice.

Her mother trained her to play one-finger melodies on the piano at age 3.

While having trained in classical guitar and piano at an early age, Bracegirdle's earliest influences in electronic music came from melodic composers such as Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and synthpop pioneer Vince Clarke ; a further influence was the dance hit " Anthem " by the house music group N-Joi.

He had a musical background ; his father, Edward Boatner, was a baritone singer, composer and college music professor, his brother was a classically trained pianist, and his mother was a piano teacher.

Moving to Lake Grove, NY early on, Irizarry at the age of 11, began to study piano, becoming classically trained, then continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Inspired by his father, Norman Airey, Don Airey took a love for music at a young age and was trained in classical piano from the age of seven.

His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher.

As opposed to many piano " purists ", Kirkland was never shy of electric keyboards and synthesizers, although he is considered one of the finest, classically trained, jazz pianists of his era ..

She accompanies herself on guitar and the piano, on which she has been classically trained.