And while he was ever alert for game, and most particularly a tiger, Penny marvelled at the Eden they were traversing.

This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

A particularly galling phrase was `` O.K., Panyotis, we have time at our disposal ''.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.

Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.

In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The audience was fond of Harry Hawk, he was a dear, in or out of character, but he was not particularly funny.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

The new work was a boon to the partnership, not only for its own value but particularly for the stimulation it provided to the imagination of J. R. Brown toward yet further developments for production equipment.

One of the many things that was so nice about her was that she always took your questions seriously, particularly your very, very serious questions.

It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.

This was particularly noticeable in group A and group B sera, in which cases activity in Regions 1 and 2 was usually not detectable without prior concentration and occasionally could not be detected at all.

The autofluorescence from the walls of the xylem cells was particularly brilliant.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

Vernon was consummately fond of oysters, and Manning's had been famous for them since the Civil War.

Lincoln " was remarkably fond of children ", and the Lincolns were not considered to be strict with their children.

He was particularly fond of Drusilla, claiming to treat her as he would his own wife, even though Drusilla had a husband.

On these occasions the reliable and yet unimaginative tactics Charles was fond of were not sufficient, except on one occasion at Aspern-Essling, to defeat the unpredictable Corsican.

He was especially fond of the asymmetrical dance rhythms and pungent harmonies found in Bulgarian music.

According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games.

Monet was fond of painting controlled nature: his own gardens in Giverny, with its water lilies, pond, and bridge.

When this clerihew was published in 1905, " Was not fond of " was replaced by " Abominated ".

Christ, according to Nestorius, was the conjunction of the Godhead with his " temple " ( which Nestorius was fond of calling his human nature ).

Juvenal, for example, was fond of occasionally creating verses that placed a sense break between the fourth and fifth foot ( instead of in the usual caesura positions ), but this technique —- known as the bucolic diaeresis -— did not catch on with other poets.

", and he was fond of saying that all of quantum mechanics can be gleaned from carefully thinking through the implications of this single experiment.

The Germans were also fond of large destroyers, but while the initial Type 1934 displaced over 3, 000 tons, their armament was equal to smaller vessels.

Danny Kaye was very fond of the legendary arranger Vic Schoen.

This statement was likely picked up by the author of the Estoire Merlin, or Vulgate Merlin, where the author ( who was fond of fanciful folk etymologies ) asserts that Escalibor " is a Hebrew name which means in French ' cuts iron, steel, and wood '" (" c ' est non Ebrieu qui dist en franchois trenche fer & achier et fust "; note that the word for " steel " here, achier, also means " blade " or " sword " and comes from medieval Latin aciarium, a derivative of acies " sharp ", so there is no direct connection with Latin chalybs in this etymology ).

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.

An England v Wales match was played at the ground in 1911, followed by a rugby league international between England and Australia.

This first game was a lot like rugby but much closer to the modern day version of football than soccer.

Harvard's decision not to join the Yale-Rutgers-Princeton-Columbia association meant that they needed to look further afield to find football opponents so when a challenge from Canada ’ s McGill University rugby team in Montreal was issued to Harvard, they accepted.

It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

Incidentally, rugby was to make a similar change to its scoring system 10 years later.

Camp, who was a rugby coach, decided to come up with a new set of rules to create a game that was completely different.

Camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage ( earlier games featured a rugby scrum, and was also the one who decided that teams should have four downs to advance the ball ten yards.

This play is part of the game's rugby heritage, and was largely made obsolete when the ball with pointed ends was adopted.

This method of scoring worked well in the 1920s and 1930s, when the football was rounder at the ends ( similar to a modern rugby ball ).

Specification of the size of the ball for the American game came in 1912, but it was still essentially a rugby ball.

Modern use in football comes from the earlier sport of rugby, where the word was used in the 19th century.

Canadian football used the rugby scrimmage unaltered until near the end of the 19th Century, when, regionally at first, under the influence of the American scrimmage, the number of players in the scrimmage was limited to three -- a " centre scrimmager " bound on either side by props called " side scrimmagers ".

He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.

Chapman was a tall ( 6 ' 2 "/ 1. 88 m ), craggy pipe-smoker who enjoyed mountaineering and playing rugby.

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

The idea of a violent rugby match between school masters and small boys was filmed in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ).

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.