A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.

The last night I had called, but the line was always busy and it reassured me.

This algorithm can easily be adapted to compute the variance of a finite population: simply divide by n instead of n − 1 on the last line.

Alboin's death deprived the Lombards of the only leader who could have kept the newborn Germanic entity together, the last in the line of hero-kings who had led the Lombards through their migrations from the vale of the Elbe to Italy.

In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

One variation shortens the second line and lengthens the last, to form a near-rhyme between N and zed:

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

A prime example of such a claim is the translation of the last line Job speaks ( 42: 6 ), which is extremely problematic in the Hebrew.

This is not the first instance of this tactic — the women of the Cimbri, in the Battle of Vercellae against Gaius Marius, were stationed in a line of wagons and acted as a last line of defence.

It is therefore probable that this arrangement was made, possibly at the last moment, so that the Athenian line was as long as the Persian line, and would not therefore be outflanked.

Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.

A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.

It is positioned to be the last line of defence should the enemy breach the other components of the fortification system.

The events of the last quarter of an hour, mysterious to any bird accustomed only to the predictable life of coop and barnyard, had overcome the doctor's hen and she gave out a series of cackly wails, perhaps mourning her nest, but briefly enjoyed.

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

Perhaps the Pirate who will be the unhappiest over the news that Musial probably will sit out most of the series is Bob Friend, who was beaten by The Man twice last season on dramatic home runs.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

The Alexander Technique is most commonly taught privately in a series of 10 to 40 private lessons which may last from 30 minutes to an hour.

* In the science fiction movie series The Matrix, the last human city, known as Zion, is a hyperstructure.

Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.

However, its release was cancelled at the last moment at the demand of Judge, who owned approval rights for video releases of the series.

Cooperative drills with the United States are very common, the last series of them conducted in 2008.

For 2012, the series will instead follow a 2-3 format with the higher seed playing the last 3 games ( as needed ) as home.

The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.

A quote from this series ranked number three in a list of the top 25 television " put downs " of the last 40 years by the Radio Times magazine.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

Some of the last issues were printed versions of episodes from the 1996-1998 Dennis and Gnasher animated TV series.

In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.

A colony was established, and a series of military governors were posted to Clipperton from that time, the last of whom would be Ramón Arnaud ( 1906 – 1916 ).

Between 6 and 9 AD the Dalmatians raised the last in a series of revolts together with the Pannonians, but it was finally crushed and in 10 AD Illyricum was split into two provinces, Pannonia and Dalmatia.

The last in the series, Claudine s ' en va, introduces a new narrator Annie.

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

Chapterhouse: Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, last in his series of six Dune novels.