It was dark early, because of the storm.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

In the early days of a homogeneous population, the public school was quite satisfactory.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

That is, there was no trace of Anglo-Saxons in Britain as early as the late third century, to which time the archaeological evidence for the erection of the Saxon Shore forts was beginning to point.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

He was, thus, an early and spectacular victim.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

Then he was asking himself the usual early morning questions: What the Hell am I doin here??

His watch told him he was still early.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

Gresham had a long career as a political appointee in the latter part of the 19th century ; though he lost his only two bids for elective office, he served in three Cabinet positions and was twice a dark horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

The first appointee was Rear Admiral Karl Eduard Heusner, followed shortly by Rear Admiral Friedrich von Hollmann from 1890 to 1897.

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

The Han Chinese appointee was required to do the substantive work and the Manchu to ensure Han loyalty to Qing rule.

An eighth chair, in Medicine, was established in 1595 but received no appointee for several years.

In the political sphere the king was understood as the appointee and agent of Yahweh.

It made the Mayor of Buenos Aires an elective position ( previously the office belonged to a presidential appointee and was in control of a huge budget ), to be lost to the opposition in 1996 ; the president of the Central Bank and the Director of the AFIP ( Federal Tax & Customs Central Agency ) could only be removed with the Congress's approval.

Pierre Dupuy, a diplomat, was named Commissioner General, after Diefenbaker appointee Paul Bienvenu resigned from the post in 1963.

The first appointee to the position was Robert Bly.

Each nomos is headed by a prefect ( nomarch ), who was until recently a ministerial appointee but is nowadays elected by direct popular vote.

President John F. Kennedy ’ s appointee as Comptroller of the Currency, James J. Saxon, was the next public official to challenge seriously Glass-Steagall ’ s prohibitions.

His appointee as Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Rose Bird, was recalled in 1986 by voters angry at her opposition to the death penalty.

After his examination he became an appointee and was responsible for hydraulic engineering projects.

Another appointee, Juan José Daboub was criticized by his colleagues and others for attempts to change policies on family planning and climate change towards a conservative line.

Benjamin was the first Jewish appointee to a Cabinet position in a North American government, and the first Jewish American to be seriously considered for nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court ( he twice declined offers of nomination ).

He was then selected in 1993 by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn's appointee as that chamber's speaker.

At the time, she was a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, which advises the NEA's chairman.

He was elected in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball ( who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949 ).

Four of the board's nine members were not present at the time, and the resolution was introduced by the board's teen member, a mayoral appointee.

The King reluctantly agreed to his advice, although his own preferred appointee was Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood ( later Lord Birdwood ), who had commanded the Australian Imperial Force during World War I.

No separate administration or capital for the colony was ever established, as its only officer or appointee was James Douglas, who was simultaneously Governor of Vancouver Island.

Human-rights advocate Samantha Power was the inaugural appointee in 2006.

Witt was mentioned as a potential candidate for Governor of Arkansas in 1997 but took himself out of consideration and stayed at FEMA until he was replaced by Joe Allbaugh, the first appointee of President George W. Bush.