And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.

In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.

As usual, Mrs. Crombie was standing in the midst of a confusion of cooking utensils.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It was in the midst of such White House deliberations that Premier Khrushchev on May 4 made new inquiries through the U. S. Embassy in Moscow about a meeting with the President in the near future.

How far and in what fashion did it modify the new nation which was emerging in the midst of the forces shaping the revolutionary age??

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.

" Gaining Senate approval of the Alaska treaty was Johnson's singular legislative accomplishment in the midst of a political war with Congress.

He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman ( Ibid.

In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.

However, by this time the market was in the midst of the first video game crash, and Fairchild eventually threw in the towel and left the market.

His primary duty was planning for the next war which proved most difficult in the midst of the great depression.

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as " a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path ... was a systematic work of destruction and demoralization ...

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

As the record was coming out, Benton considered retiring from music, in the midst of personal matters including a custody battle.

In the midst of this feud Germanicus was stricken with a mysterious illness and died shortly thereafter in Antioch.

The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).

At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped and all records of it expunged, and the incident never was publicized by the press.

But in the midst of the dispute, Fox was imprisoned again for refusing to swear oaths after being captured at Armscote, Worcestershire.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

The Rule of Law, historically a principle according everyone his `` day in court '' before an impartial tribunal, was broadened substantively by making it a responsibility of government to promote individual welfare.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

This time he was making no mistake.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

The work for Commonweal was more satisfying than work for Commentary `` because of the staff's tiptoeing fear of making a booboo ''.

There was a new Pope and the Vatican was making itself heard and felt these days.

In a few minutes she was making the ten-foot hike unaided ; ;

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

The merit of the pie, Vernon believed, was due more to its making than to the waning heat of the oven.

Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

Raymond Fox reported that the orchestra had hastily rehearsed `` Cradle Song '' in case it was needed.

Later on this problem vanished, and the `` Flower Song '' from Bizet's `` Carmen '' was beautifully and intelligently projected.

Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.

Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.

In particular, he was invited to play at the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow because the organizers wanted to give a " more Russian appearance " of the contest.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

This economic phenomenon was a slow and gradual process that took place from the late Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) into the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

The Song Dynasty was the first to issue generally circulating paper currency, while the Yuan Dynasty was the first to use notes as the predominant circulating medium.

In the ensuing years, China was divided between the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Tangut Western Xia.

Furthermore, China's first permanent standing navy was assembled and provided an admiral's office at Dinghai in 1132, under the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song.

The Jurchen-founded Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war, the first war in which firearms played an important role.

Neo-Confucianism was a revived version of old Confucian principles that appeared around the Song Dynasty, with Buddhist, Taoist, and Legalist features.

Confucius was said to have been a descendant of the Shang kings or priests through the Dukes of Song.

For example, Zigong was from the Wey state and Sima Niu was from the Song state.

Sima Niu, in contrast to Yan Hui, was from a hereditarily noble family hailing from the Song state.

The handheld pistol-and-trigger crossbow was invented in China in the 4th century BC ; it was written by the Song Dynasty scholars Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in their book Wujing Zongyao ( 1044 AD ) that massed missile fire by crossbowmen was the most effective defense against enemy cavalry charges.

T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ," was first published by Poetry.

His first novel, Song of Kali, was released in 1985.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.