Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

Rain on Friday prevented many workouts, but there were a few miles of note on Thursday.

Through the efforts of SAAMI's shooting development program these shooting activities, and many others, including assists in the development of public and privately financed shooting parks, trap and skeet leagues, rifle and pistol marksmanship programs have been promoted, to mention only a few.

It is believed that these boards will, within the next few years, replace many of the conventional flood-lighted boards now in use.

From a few students this group gradually increased to include over three-fourths of those officially enrolled in the class, and many outsiders as well.

How much and how many profits could a majority take out of the losses of a few??

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

We consider here only a few of many problems involved in this crucial federal-state relationship.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

The Federal funds limitation enlists the support of many, the opposition of quite a few.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

It is not often realized to what degree certain trades are in many communities closed areas of employment, except for a lucky few.

It seems to be indispensable to the national self-esteem that the Negro be considered either as a kind of ward ( in which case we are told how many Negroes, comparatively, bought Cadillacs last year and how few, comparatively, were lynched ), or as a victim ( in which case we are promised that he will never vote in our assemblies or go to school with our kids ).

Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.

Watch people flock to amusement houses, cocktail lounges, and night clubs that advertise continuous entertainment, which means an endless flow of noise and frivolity by paid entertainers who are supposed to perform in those incredible ways which are designed to give men a few hours of dubious relaxation -- watch them and you can tell that many of them are running away from something.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

And we are positive of so few and suspicious of so many ''.

Mike stopped to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.

" In his book Indoctrination and Self-deception, Roderick Hindery tries to shed light on these tensions by contrasting them with impostors of authentic self-affirmation and altruism, by analysis of other-regard within creative individuation of the self, and by contrasting love for the few with love for the many.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

Now we might have restricted the use of uranium bombs by controlling the sources of uranium because it is found in only a few places in the world.

A third source, or set of sources, were cycles of stories about various prophets ( Elijah and Elisha, Isaiah, Ahijah and Micaiah ), plus a few smaller miscellaneous traditions.

* A few sections were editorial additions not based on sources.

Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.

There are few surviving sources on Caligula's reign, although he is described as a noble and moderate ruler during the first two years of his rule.

The few primary sources disagree on what precisely occurred.

There are few surviving sources on Caligula and no surviving source paints Caligula in a favorable light.

The country was one of the few sources of amber in the Western Hemisphere.

He suggested that when there are only a few sources, say two, we call it interference, as in Young's slits, but with a large number of sources, the process be labelled diffraction.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

However, if one examines the few existing foreign sources about Denmark from the 13th to 15th centuries, it is apparent that, at least from foreign point of view ; the national symbol of Denmark was not a red-and-white banner but the royal coat of arms ( three blue lions on a golden shield.

The few Hindus who are not vegetarians don't mind gelatin from all the sources but cow, which is considered sacred.

This is one of the few natural sources of carbon monoxide production in the human body, and is responsible for the normal blood levels of carbon monoxide even in people breathing pure air.

Having said that, the literary sources of Priscus and Jordanes preserve only a few names, and three words, of the language of the Huns, which have been studied for more than a century and a half.

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

Khazar Correspondence is one of the very few primary sources on history of Khazars.

A wide range of death tolls has been suggested, from as many as 60 million suggested by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to as few as 700, 000 by Soviet news sources.

" However, few sources give " love of wisdom " as a possible meaning of the term, and others say the etymology is " not much help ".

Malta produces only about 20 % of its food needs, has limited fresh water supplies, and has few domestic energy sources.

A few other ( but not all ) species of maple ( Acer ) are also sometimes used as sources of sap for producing maple syrup, including the box elder or Manitoba maple ( Acer negundo ), the silver maple ( A. sacharinum ), and the bigleaf maple ( A. macrophyllum ).

In pre-modern Mecca, the city exploited a few chief sources of water.

The sources of this spring are the mountains of J ̲ abal Saʿd ( Jabal Sa'd ) and Jabal Kabkāb, which lie a few kilometers east of Jabal Arafa or about southeast of Mecca.

Nearly all outside sources regard the SPA as a rubberstamp body, due to the short period of its sessions, uncontested elections to office, and the fact that it passes all proposals submitted by the government over a period of a few days.

If this condition is diagnosed, some sources suggest taking guaifenesin in the few days before ovulation to thin out the mucus.