When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Watson turned away and did not see the man's knees buckle and his body sag.

Whenever artists, indeed, turned to actual representations or molded three-dimensional figures, which were rare down to 800 B.C., they tended to reflect reality ( see Plate 6a, 9b ) ; ;

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

He jumped up and turned around to see the metal door closing.

Phil turned and left the room, hearing Eddie say: `` Someday you'll see I was right ''.

Gregg returned to the plane to try to help the appallingly injured Busby and Blanchflower, and when he turned around again, he was relieved to see that Charlton and Viollet, both of whom he had presumed to be dead, had got out of their detached seats and were looking into the wreckage.

One of the drawings of the Anonymous of the Hussite Wars shows a boat with a pair of paddle-wheels at each end turned by men operating compound cranks ( see above ).

The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – " turned in an opposite direction ," from contra – " against " – and vertere – to turn, or versus ( see verse ), hence, " to turn against.

Since 2002, most of the attention in the search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker has turned away from the Pearl River region, although several unconfirmed sightings have been reported there since February 2006, see video clips.

" was conceited, not only about his own learning but also about the opinions held of him as commander both by the Galileans and by the Romans ; he was guilty of shocking duplicity at Jotapata, saving himself by sacrifice of his companions ; he was too naive to see how he stood condemned out of his own mouth for his conduct, and yet no words were too harsh when he was blackening his opponents ; and after landing, however involuntarily, in the Roman camp, he turned his captivity to his own advantage, and benefitted for the rest of his days from his change of side.

It also concerns me that once the pork barrel is filled, suddenly the Church of Scientology, the Jehovah Witnesses, the various and many denominations and religious groups — and I don't say those words in a pejorative way — begin applying for money — and I don't see how any can be turned down because of their radical and unpopular views.

" Nuremberg Prison Commandant Burton C. Andrus later recalled that immediately before the hood was placed over his head, Ribbentrop, who had experienced a late conversion to Christianity while imprisoned at Nuremberg, turned to the prison's Lutheran chaplain and whispered, " I'll see you again.

The answer to this question turned out to be negative: in 1952, Gleason, Montgomery and Zippin showed that if G is a topological manifold with continuous group operations, then there exists exactly one analytic structure on G which turns it into a Lie group ( see also Hilbert – Smith conjecture ).

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

Having looked around in vain for the five members and commenting " I see the birds have flown ", Charles turned to Lenthall, who stood below and demanded of him whether any of those persons were in the House, whether he saw any of them and where they were.

As it turned out, this tactic briefly allowed the emperors to wrestle power back from the Fujiwara clan, only to see it fall to the Taira warrior clan instead.

Pigs are particularly valued in China and on certain oceanic islands, where their self-sufficiency allows them to be turned loose, although the practice is not without its drawbacks ( see Environmental impact ).

The attack was led by General Martok who, it turned out, had been himself replaced by a shapeshifter, one of the leaders of the Dominion ( first revealed in " Apocalypse Rising "; see also " In Purgatory's Shadow ").

It is necessary to flip back the horizon mirror shade to be able to see the horizon, and then the fine adjustment screw on the end of the index bar is turned until the bottom curve ( the lower limb ) of the sun just touches the horizon.

This would explain why Emma turned her attention to her other son, Edward, why Magnus seriously expected to succeed the rival king, and why Henry III was eager to have a connection to the Danish monarch ( see succession below ).

Sometimes his name is turned into the Frankish name Rodolf ( us ) or Radulf ( us ) or the French Raoul, that are derived from it .< ref group =" Note "> Rou is the result of a series of French regular phonetic changes from Hrólfr > Rolf > Rouf to Rou ( see Lepelley 15-16 ) and Norman names in-ouf and-ou ( t ): I ( n ) gouf and Ygout < Old Norse Ingulfr / Ingólfr ( Old Danish Ingulf ).

For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.

While he slept, Frea told the Winnili women to comb their hair over their faces to look like long beards so they would look like men and turned the bed so the Winnili women would be on Odin's side.

The pankratiast faces his opponent with a nearly frontal stance — only slightly turned sideways.

During the cadet's first class ( senior ) year, the ring is worn with the class crest facing the wearer ; following graduation, the ring is turned so that the academy's crest faces away from the wearer.

Some marketers turned to film and TV for fresh, attractive, ' safe ' faces.

In Thailand, actors darken their faces to portray the Negrito of Thailand in a popular play by King Chulalongkorn ( 1868 – 1910 ), Ngo Pa (), which has been turned into a musical and a movie.

After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces " Westward ," a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land.

When the British got too close, they turned and fired at point-blank range in their faces.

The shooting was so intense that many turned their faces away as if walking into a storm of sleet.

It is, he says, because in primal times people had doubled bodies, with faces and limbs turned away from one another.

One young veteran, writing home from occupied Germany, predicted that the College would see a lot more men ’ s faces after the war, which turned out to be very accurate ; the education benefits offered under the GI Bill of Rights drove men to apply at unprecedented levels, including more African-American students.

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

He turned the other faces more vertically than Tresaguet's method.

Among the elaborated sprites include multiple hit stun sprites, including a new " turned-around state ," in which a character is turned around ( his or her back faces the opponent ) after being hit.

At the end of the event it was revealed that Nash and Sting had been right about Hogan and Bischoff all along, as they turned heel with Jarrett, Abyss and Jeff Hardy, and in the process turned Nash, Sting and Dinero back to being faces.

* In field hockey, a type of hit where the hockey stick is turned so that the rounded side faces the ground and then swung in such a way that it hits the ball in a downward chopping motion

Once in a while, faces who have recently turned from being heels will still exhibit some heel characteristics.

Aside from Brother Night, Zatanna also faces other threats, such as Oscar Hample, a man who tried to murder her when she was a child and was turned into a puppet by her father.

Sometimes the ghatam is turned around so that the mouth faces the audience and the performer plays on the neck of the instrument.

Sargent chose the pose for Gautreau carefully: her body boldly faces forward while her head is turned in profile.

He gave ready faces to those who had been turned away.

The characters in this shot have turned into black stereotypes after a passing car splashed mud on their faces.