The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.

Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.

Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned bay gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to throw, but ready to spin and run, rope whining about his head, horse edging tensely under him, but the gelding was obedient and responded and was not paralyzed by the close proximity of the lion.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

The bay laurel plant was used in expiatory sacrifices and in making the crown of victory at these games.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

At a distance of from the Moon, the Scientific Instrument Module ( SIM ) bay cover was jettisoned.

Another explanation is that the name was related to swamp and originally meant " enclosed sea, bay " as opposed to open sea.

In 1798 the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals, which ran into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.

Zealous pursued, and was able to prevent the frigate Justice from boarding Bellerophon, which was anchored at the southern point of the bay undergoing hasty repairs.

The work was later taken over by Franck Goddio, who led a major project to explore the bay in 1998.

The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

She was mission specialist in charge of deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Inertial Upper Stage out of the shuttle's cargo bay.

About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.

The waters formed in a narrow, crooked bay which was connected to the sea through what is now the Jezreel Valley.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

Clyde Miller was crying softly to himself, shedding his striped suit and fumbling into the nondescript butternut pants, the worn brown shirt.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.

Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.

One of the drawing-room shutters was partly open and he made out the shapes of chairs and sofas, which seemed to be upholstered in brown or russet velvet.

Outside was finished with Creek-Turn brown toner brushed on and sponged off to give antique finish.

But the warm joy of her brown eyes was open to the general public.

Macrophages laden with brown pigment were seen in some of the alveoli, and the intima of some of the small arteries was thickened by fibrous tissue.

The liver weighed 2,090 gm., was brown in color, and the cut surface was mottled by irregular pale areas.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.

She was wearing a brown cotton dress, cut across the hips in a way that was supposed to make her look slimmer, a yoke set into the skirt and flaring pleats below.

The lieutenant's sparse brown hair was heavily pomaded, and as Killpath raked the comb through it, it stuck together in thatches so that it looked like umbrella ribs clinging to his pink skull.

He was perhaps thirty-two, nicely set up, with light brown hair that had a pronounced wave.

he wore a brown tweed sports jacket obviously tailored in Hong Kong, and he was of an age that marked him as a lieutenant.

Then the young man in the brown sports jacket spoke, and it was no different.

The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;

His rock was to the right of a V-shaped inlet, a big, brown, lumpy rock trailing seaweed whiskers.

Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.

Her hair was a very pretty light brown, and fell on her neck in graceful curls.

He described it as brown in colour and the size of a wagon load ; it was a local landmark for more than 500 years.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.

However, smaller horses can also excel ; for example, the third place competitor in the 2007 Rolex Kentucky Three Day CCI competition was Teddy O ' Connor, a 14. 1 hand gelding that was a cross of Thoroughbred, Arabian and Shetland pony breeding.

Racing against older horses for the first time he was beaten by the Allen Jerkens-trained Onion, a four-year-old gelding.

Lord Ormonde walked ahead with the Sword of State ; he was followed by a page leading the Queen's charger and another bearing her silver helmet on a cushion ; then came the Queen herself, in white with a silver cuirass and mounted on a grey gelding.

These included the prohibition of selling or purchasing any article or commodity from or to a slave without written permission from their master or overseer, no slave was allowed to purchase alcohol without written consent, if any slave were convicted of assault upon " any white man, negro, or mulatto " the owner would be fined $ 50, any slave caught running " any horse, gelding, or mule " through town would be subject to fifteen lashes unless the owner pays a fine of $ 1, any slave caught driving any wagon or cart or driving a horse or mule on or across the sidewalks of the town would be subject to 10 lashes, unless the owner pays a fine of 50 cents.

On July 10, 1859, Miller was caught stealing a horse gelding valued at $ 80, a saddle worth $ 15, and other items.

A chestnut gelding, Phar Lap was foaled on 4 October 1926 in Seadown near Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand.

Turpin was charged with the theft of Creasy's horses: a mare worth three pounds, a foal worth 20 shillings, and a gelding worth three pounds.

Greyhound was a grey Standardbred gelding by Guy Abbey out of Elizabeth by Peter the Great.

Modern veterinary techniques make gelding of even a somewhat elderly stallion a fairly low-risk procedure, and the horse then has the benefit of being able to be turned out safely with other horses and allowed to live a less restricted and isolated life than was allowed for a stallion.

Rambling Willie ( April 18, 1970-August 24, 1995 ) was a harness racing horse, more specifically a bay pacing gelding sired by Rambling Fury and out of Meadow Belle by Meadow Gold.

Funny Cide lost the Wood by a short neck and was pressing Empire Maker at the wire, even after New York Hero bore out very wide early, taking the gelding with him and losing him his early momentum.

The partnership of Sackatoga Stable, Barclay Tagg and assistant trainer Robin Smullen decided that it was best to retire him on a high note with the victory in the Wadsworth and with the gelding still fit and sound.

No doubt because he was a gelding, but also because he was difficult to handle.

The first horse that played Mister Ed for the pilot episode was a chestnut gelding.

However, the permanent equine star of the show was Bamboo Harvester ( 1949 – 70 ), a crossbred gelding of American Saddlebred, Arabian and grade ancestry.

A bay gelding by Archive out of Bright Cherry, he was the grandson of the unbeaten ( in 14 races ) flat racehorse and prepotent sire Nearco.

A gelding, after his racing career was over Think Big lived out his days at jockey Harry White's 200-hectare farm in Gisborne near Victoria, Australia where he died, on 23 February 1995, and is buried.

The status of the park as a retirement center was further established with the 1985 arrival of John Henry, Horse of the Decade for the 1980s and the top money-winning thoroughbred gelding in racing history.

Billyjojimbob ( 1987 – 2002 ) was a champion Standardbred trotting gelding by Balanced Image out of Ginger Jewel by Tough Cookie.