But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

If one lives near a subway or an express parkway, the solution is to have one's wines stored with a dealer and brought home a few at a time.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Shoup have returned to their home in Colorado Springs after spending a few days at the Brown Palace Hotel.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

Aged 15, it was Anne's first time away from home, and she made few friends at Roe Head.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

In particular, home versions of arcade games sometimes had problems with flickering and slow down when more than a few moving objects appeared on the screen at once.

Throughout modern baseball, a few core statistics have been traditionally referenced — batting average, RBI, and home runs.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

During the next few years, Prinknash Park, so called, was used as a home, until it was returned to the order.

" The Berliner Zeitung " reported a few days later that Haley had collapsed after a performance in Texas and been taken to the hospital in his home town of Harlingen, Texas.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

Since the temple was not considered a place of worship for use by the population at large, but rather a home for the deity, the sanctuary needed only to be large enough to hold the statue or linga ; it was never more than a few metres across.

One young Belgian officer wrote home: " Happily Gongo's men ate them up a few hours.

The few other areas that operate the special legislative procedures are justice & home affairs, budget and taxation and certain aspects of other policy areas: such as the fiscal aspects of environmental policy.

The Panthers have worn the light blue jersey a few times on the road when the home team has chosen to wear white due to the heat, as the light blue uniforms are more comfortable in the heat than black.

One of the few residential designs by Saarinen, the home is a representation of International Style and was built for J. Irwin Miller.

Thomas ' formal education began at Mrs Hole's dame school a private school on Mirador Crescent, a few streets away from his home.

A few months later, Francis went abroad with Sir Amias Paulet, the English ambassador at Paris, while Anthony continued his studies at home.

After recovering at home, Capra then moved out and spent the next few years living in flophouses in San Francisco and hopping freight trains, wandering around the Western U. S. To support himself, he took odd jobs working on farms, as a movie extra, playing poker, or selling local oil well stocks.

Moremi National Park is home to a variety of wildlife, including lions, giraffes, elephants, buffalo, zebra, cheetahs and antelope, and covers an area of 3, 000 square kilometers.

His ancestral home was in village Bara Jagulia, in the District of Nadia, about 48 kilometers from Calcutta.

Within a few kilometers of Udon Thani is Wat Pa Baan That, which was home for many years to Forest Meditation monk Luangta Maha Bua, known for his philanthropic endeavors such as accumulating gold and giving it to the National Treasury to benefit Thailand's citizens during the economic crisis of the late 1990's.

In 1906, they resettled to a large home four kilometers south of Westlock.

Short-term home ranges of feral camels in Australia are 50-150 square kilometers, and annual home ranges are estimated to be several thousand kilometers.

Eyadéma constructed a large palace near his family home in Pya a few kilometers north of Lama-Kara.

After he agreed, the sisters moved to their aunt's house at Saint-Rémy, a village nine kilometers from their home.

The area of the prefecture is approximately 42, 000 square kilometers in size and home to about 810, 000 ethnic Koreans.

A trail system lets visitors explore several kilometers of bottomland and upland mixed hardwood forests in search of the of native wildlife that call the Zoo and Garden home.

It is 304. 2 square kilometers in area, making it the third-largest precinct in the greater urban part of Beijing, and is home to 790, 000 inhabitants.

It is one of the biggest unaltered rivers in Southern Africa and the 20, 000 square miles ( around 50, 000 square kilometers ) that make up the surrounding valley are home to abundant wildlife.

It seems he had regular contact with wounded soldiers and saw corpses, since the battlefield was only some 15 kilometers from his home.

About 5 kilometers to the east of Heidenheim, separated by the major road European route E43 the village of Oggenhausen is home to about 1550 residents.

Independence was proclaimed on June 12, 1898 between four and five in the afternoon in Cavite at the ancestral home of General Emilio Aguinaldo some 30 kilometers South of Manila.

For students in grades one to four a school had to be within 3 kilometers of their home, and for students in grades five to seven, within 4 kilometers of their home.

The basin is a total of 3. 7 million square kilometers and is home to some of the largest undisturbed stands of tropical rainforest on the planet, in addition to large wetlands.

The Northern Aché, who are best documented, ranged from the forests near Coronel Oviedo to the Paraná River near Saltos de Guaira, a home range of approximately 20, 000 square kilometers.

Nanchong ( ) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan Province of the People's Republic of China, with an area of 12, 479 kilometers, and the home to 7, 300, 000 people.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

He is usually conscious of the social pressures at home and outside ; ;

No suburban shopping-center branch -- not even Hudson's vast Northland outside Detroit -- does anything like the unit volume of business or carries anything like the variety of merchandise to be found in the home store.

After a roundup the pushin' of stray cattle of outside brands toward their home range was called `` throwin' over ''.

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them.

It also brought home proof of something a casual observer might have missed: that more than half of the U.S. Negroes live outside the southeastern states.

Lincoln also agreed with the customary obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from work done outside the home until age 21.

Austrian-born Adolf Hitler had a lifelong romantic fascination for the Alps and by the 1930s established a home in the Obersalzberg region outside of Berchtesgaden.

The home is not a museum, so only the outside murals are able to be seen by the public.

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

If the celebration takes place outside of Mass, it can be held in the home, in a hospital or institution, or in church.

The pitcher then pitches the ball to that side several feet outside from home plate, usually outside the reach of the batter.

It includes " men who live independently, outside of their parents ' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating ".

In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

A carriage accident outside Laura's home unexpectedly brings a girl of Laura's age into the family's care.

Men are expected to work outside of the home, and are permitted to have whatever job they choose.

As a tertiary, she lived outside the convent, at home with her family like before.

The stadium is located in Tarrant County, the first time the Cowboys will call a stadium home outside of Dallas County.

After we broke up, he would stand outside my home in Burbank and cry.

In July 2007 and with six rounds remaining in the home and away season, Essendon was placed just outside the top Eight and on the brink of making the finals once again when it was announced that Kevin Sheedy's contract would not be renewed after 27 years.

Irish Volunteer units mobilised on Easter Sunday in several places outside of Dublin, but due to Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order, most of them returned home without fighting.

In developed countries, this is usually done outside the home in slaughterhouses, which are used to process animals en masse for meat production.