Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.

All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

Mama knew she was playing her son's favorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not disturb her.

And Grey's Northumberland background was close to Trevelyan's own.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

He must mentally pull the blinds and close the window, so that all that existed was in the books before him.

The nigger boy was close behind him.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

At the inn, which was situated close to a broad weir, Byron was greeted by the landlord with obsequious deference and addressed as `` milord ''.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

But as November 1924 drew close the Democratic hierarchy was sorely troubled by grapevine reports that O'Banion was being wooed by the opposition, and was meeting and conferring with important Republicans.

Among the more significant post-war productions was that directed in 1951 by Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson.

What Knappertsbusch did not realise was that Wieland had made the length of the string sufficient so that the conductor could see the dove, but the audience could not.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

Wieland Wagner, the grandson of the composer, Richard Wagner, was the deputy civilian director there from September 1944 to April 1945.

* Bob Wieland, Vietnam was a soldier in Vietnam.

Christoph Martin Wieland ( September 5, 1733 – January 20, 1813 ) was a German poet and writer.

Wieland married in 1765, and between 1769 and 1772 was professor of philosophy at Erfurt.

Wieland was also strongly influenced by the French fairy-tale vogue of the 18th century, he published a collection of tales entitled Dschinnistan ( 1786 – 1789 ), which included three original tales, ' Der Stein der Weisen ' (' The Philosopher's Stone '), ' Timander und Melissa ', and ' Der Druide oder die Salamanderin und die Bildsäule ' (' The Druid or the Salamander and the Painted Pillar ').

Gruber was the author of a large number of works, the principal of which are Charakteristik Herders ( Leipzig, 1805 ), in conjunction with Johann TL Danz ( 1769 – 1851 ), afterwards professor of theology at Jena ; Geschichte des menschlichen Geschlechts ( 2 vols, Leipzig, 1806 ); Wörterbuch der altklassischen Mythologie ( 3 vols, Weimar, 1810 – 1815 ); a life of Christoph Martin Wieland ( Wielands Leben, 2 parts, Weimar, 1815 – 1816 ), and of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ( Klopstocks Leben, Weimar, 1832 ).

Hufeland was the inventor of the term macrobiotic, was Physician Royal to the King of Prussia, as well as giving medical attention to the following illustrious patients: " Johann Wolfgang Goethe ( 1749-1832 ), Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744-1803 ), Schiller ( 1739-1805 ), and Christoph Martin Wieland ( 1732-1813 ).

His novels were the first U. S. novels translated into other European languages: Ormond was published in German ( where it was attributed to Godwin ) during 1803, and a French version of Wieland appeared in 1808.

Under the direction of Wieland Wagner, the " New Bayreuth " ushered in an era that was no less than revolutionary.

Wieland was particularly derided for his 1956 production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Others have speculated that by stripping Wagner's works of their Germanic and historic elements, Wieland was attempting to distance Bayreuth from its nationalistic past and create productions with universal appeal.

Pioneering work on this toxin was done by the Nobel laureate Heinrich Wieland in the 1930s.

Phalloidin was ultimately purified and crystallized in 1937 by Heinrich's student and son-in-law Feodor Lynen ( who won a Nobel Prize in 1964 for his work on cholesterol metabolism ), and Heinrich's nephew Ulrich Wieland.

Heinrich Otto Wieland ( 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957 ) was a German chemist.

After collecting money for Kurt Huber's widow Clara Huber, Hans Conrad Leipelt, a student of Wieland, was sentenced to death.

Heinrichs father, Theodor Wieland ( 1846 – 1928 ) was a pharmacist with a doctorate in chemistry.

Heinrich Wieland was a cousin of Helene Boehringer, the wife of Albert Boehringer, who was the founder of Boehringer-Ingelheim.

Eva Wieland, Heinrich Wieland's daughter, was married to Feodor Lynen on 14 May 1937.