He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

`` 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 ''.

Mills secured Barco's photograph from the gentleman in charge, rushed to the Hollywood police station to report the theft, and less than five minutes later, detectives with his picture in hand were on the trail of Cal Barco.

Hans Schweizer had one that increased from 19-1/2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches in five years, and J. J. Quelch records a growth of from less than 4 feet to nearly 10 in about six years.

In less than five minutes Alec was asleep.

It includes all land under temporary crops ( double-cropped areas are counted only once ), temporary meadows for mowing or market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow ( less than five years ).

But the flow speed is five meters per second in the Amazon and less than a millimeter per second speed in the Hamza.

It is located less than five minutes by rail from Tokyo Station.

Though less than five percent of its land is arable, the province is agriculturally rich ( particularly in the Fraser and Okanagan Valleys ) because of its mild weather.

This still takes place more or less every five years and concludes with a game of Cornish hurling.

He opened the meeting on a negative note, revealing to his brigadiers that provisions would be exhausted in less than five days, and suggested retreating, perhaps as far back as Asmara.

1999 — A second era of political instability begins, starting with five different coalitions in less than nine months, and at least as many since then.

Punishment can range from the person being imprisoned for a period of less than five years or until the person complies with the order or fine.

– had unanimously urged him, on no less than five occasions, to launch an atomic attack against China ; yet he consistently refused to do so and felt a distinct sense of accomplishment in having sufficiently confronted communism while keeping world peace.

The other five were less prestigious suffect consulships, which he held in 71, 75, 76, 77 and 79 respectively, usually replacing his father or brother in mid-January.

Browne's compendium went through no less than five editions, each revised and augmented, the last edition appearing in 1672.

At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

Since the probability of a run of five successive heads is only ( one in thirty-two ), a believer in the gambler's fallacy might believe that this next flip is less likely to be heads than to be tails.

Adding another of any of these particles would require angular momentum and would release substantially less energy ( in fact, no nucleus with five nucleons is stable ).

The optimum length of the drive pipe is five to twelve times the vertical distance between the source and the pump, or 500 to 1000 times the diameter of the delivery pipe, whichever is less.

Alexander took his duties as the viceroy quite seriously, feeling that, as governor general, he acted as a connection between Canadians and their king, and spent considerable time travelling Canada during his term ; he eventually logged no less than 294, 500 km ( 184, 000 mi ) during his five years as governor general.

The insertion process generally takes five minutes or less.

The national team has been less successful in such limited-overs matches at the ground, including a five year stint between 1996 and 2001, when they failed to win any matches.

In the 1970s commercially successful LED devices at less than five cents each were produced by Fairchild Optoelectronics.

On August 24 the Brewers completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to climb to less than five games out in both the NL Central Division and NL Wild Card races, but then Milwaukee went on a 10-game losing streak that ended any postseason hope.

* Stage V: Thirty-six to seventy-two hours after last dose: Increase in the above, fetal position, vomiting, free and frequent liquid diarrhea, which sometimes can accelerate the time of passage of food from mouth to out of system to an hour or less, involuntary ejaculation, which is often painful, saturation of bedding materials with bodily fluids, weight loss of two to five kilos per 24 hours, increased white cell count and other blood changes.