They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it.

Women themselves have come to look upon matters in the same light as the outside world, and scarcely find any wrong in submitting to the importunities of a stronger will, even when their affections are withheld.

Apparently you were the light of their lives ''.

Above, the glowing ivory baton of their searchlight pointed at the clouds, diluting the valley's dark to a pallid light.

The extent to which we can persuade the less developed countries to appraise their own resources, to set targets toward which they should be working, to establish in the light of this forward perspective the most urgent priorities for their immediate attention, and to do the other things which they must do to help themselves, all on a realistic long-term basis, will depend importantly on the incentives we place before them.

A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.

And wherever the new thruways go up their banks are lined by neat glass and metal and colored brick light industry.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

With these gadgets -- impressive to the gullible because of their flashing light bulbs, ticks, and buzzes -- he then carries out a vicious medical con game, capitalizing on people's respect for the electrical and atomic wonders of our scientific age.

There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.

When the light went their way, they went on across the street.

In Psalm 27: 1 you read those beautiful words which you must have in your heart if you are to master the fears that surround you, or to drive them out if they have you in their grip: `` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;

For those who put their trust in Him He still says every day again: `` Let there be light ''!!

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

But it strikes sparks on occasion and their light causes all else to be forgotten.

The birds were really awake now in a colloquy of music, and light was beginning to creep across the room, touching sill and door, table and chair and all of Doaty's flowers in their artificial blossom and leaf.

their talk and their feeling had been as deep and warm, as steeped in light, as the air around them.

Most eggs contain the pigment melanin which raises their temperature through the absorption of light and also protects them against ultraviolet radiation.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate " light flashes " that were seen by the astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether or not their eyes were open, on Apollo lunar flights.

The debate led to a decision that Chicago needed neither a big name nor an experienced academic administrator, but rather, as Trustee Chairman Glen A. Lloyd put it, `` a top scholar in his own right '' -- a bright light to lure other top scholars to Chicago.

I did notice a twinkle of light from the big house through the woods but as I had left a light on in my own house because of the fog I assumed Mrs. Salter had done the same before she left for town.

He maintained that the life of Jesus must be interpreted in the light of Jesus ' own convictions, which reflected late Jewish eschatology.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

Most outback sheep stations and cattle stations have an airstrip and quite a few have their own light plane.

The beauty and value of many of the Latin Breviaries were brought to the notice of English churchmen by one of the numbers of the Oxford Tracts for the Times, since which time they have been much more studied, both for their own sake and for the light they throw upon the English Prayer-Book.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

On a slowly rotating planet, for example, it might be adaptive for photosynthesis to be performed by " plants " that can move to remain in the light, like Earth's sunflowers ; while non-photosynthetic " animals ", much like Earth's fungi, might have a lesser need to move from place to place on their own.

* 1 Cor 12, 13, 14, where Paul discusses speaking in " various kinds of tongues " as part of his wider discussion of the gifts of the Spirit ; his remarks shed some light on his own speaking in tongues as well as how the gift of speaking in tongues was to be used in the church.

Trivalent holmium ions have fluorescent properties similar to many other rare earth ions ( while yielding their own set of unique emission light lines ), and holmium ions are thus used in the same way as some other rare earths in certain laser and glass colorant applications.

In 1816, Fresnel showed that Huygens ' principle, together with his own principle of interference could explain both the rectilinear propagation of light and also diffraction effects.

An internal reason is, roughly, something that one has in light of one's own " subjective motivational set "--- one's own commitments, desires ( or wants ), goals, etc.

However, our understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind genomic imprinting show that it is the maternal genome that controls much of the imprinting of both its own and the paternally-derived genes in the zygote, making it difficult to explain why the maternal genes would willingly relinquish their dominance to that of the paternally-derived genes in light of the conflict hypothesis.

However, he believed that ' a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints ', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.

Indian newspapers repeated Nehru's own words of the time of Gandhi's assassination: " The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere.

:" Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais ( Don ), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.

LCD panels produce no light of their own ; they require external light to produce a visible image.

" cientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

Many life forms that live at these depths have the ability to create their own light known as bio-luminescence.

Many countries developed their own styles of light cavalry, such as Hungarian mounted archers, Spanish jinetes, Italian and German mounted crossbowmen and English currours.

: Copenhagenists claim that interpretations of quantum mechanics where the wave function is regarded as real have problems with EPR-type effects, since they imply that the laws of physics allow for influences to propagate at speeds greater than the speed of light.

It is possible to object to this interpretation of general relativity on the grounds that light rays might be improper physical models of Euclid's lines, or that relativity could be rephrased so as to avoid the geometrical interpretations.

But of those interpretations that fit, Dworkin maintains that the correct interpretation is the one that puts the political practices of the community in their best light, or makes of them the best that they can be.

But of those interpretations that fit, Dworkin maintains that the correct interpretation is the one that puts the political practices of the community in their best light, or makes of them the best that they can be.

At the same time, there was a rise in philosophical and midrashic interpretations depicting women in a negative light, emphasizing a duality between matter and spirit in which femininity was associated, negatively, with earth and matter.

Martin Heidegger's phenomenological analyses of the existential structure of man in Being and Time throw new light on the issue of thinking, unsettling traditional cognitive or rational interpretations of man which affect the way we understand thought.

Meillet's analysis also " rectified earlier interpretations " that suggested that the Indo-Iranian common noun * mitra-had anything to do with the light or the sun.

In one of the interpretations in Macrobius's work, Saturnalia is a festival of light leading to the winter solstice, with the abundant presence of candles symbolizing the quest for knowledge and truth.

In some interpretations, one may consider " start " as a light verb, which carries markers like tense.

Although western audiences categorise wassoulou performers like Oumou Sangaré as feminists for criticizing practices like polygamy and arranged marriage, within Mali they are not viewed in that light because their messages, when they do not support the status quo of gender roles, are subtly expressed and ambiguously worded, thus keeping them open to a variety of interpretations and avoiding direct censure from Malian society.

This means that liberal Muslims often question traditional interpretations of the Qur ' an which they find intellectually stifling, preferring instead to interpret the Quran in light of modern wisdom and scientific knowledge ( see ijtihad ).

In the light of traditions and interpretations, the personality of the Promised Mahdi would be as such:

The range of interpretations arises particularly in light of the tension between Hirsch's insistence as to faithfulness to Jewish law and tradition, and the challenges posed to this by interaction with the secular world.

Today, some Christians, especially those among Seventh-day Adventists citing extracts of Biblically sequential events, "... the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky ..." ( ( WEB ) are signs preceding the return of Christ ) and interpretations of the event as cited by Ellen G. White, believe that the Dark Day was a fulfillment of Biblical and end-times prophecy.

In light of the dwindling rural population of the Alps, many customs have evolved into more modern interpretations.

Pope Leo XIII, for instance, referred to longstanding Christian thought that scriptural interpretations could be reevaluated in the light of new knowledge, and Roman Catholics came around to acceptance of human evolution subject to direct creation of the soul.

Members of the stigmatized group lose the opportunity to establish their own personal system of evaluation and group membership as well as the ability to arrive at their own ranking of each personal characteristic .... For example, newly self-acknowledged homosexual individuals cannot take for granted that they share the world with others who hold congruent interpretations and assumptions ; their behavior and motives, both past and present, will be interpreted in light of their stigma.

Ōe relates his interpretations of events with Eeyore in light of Blake's poetry, and discusses the influence of and similarities between Blake's work on his own.

In light of modern scientific knowledge about the origins of the earth and the universe, many modern interpretations particularly by apologists, prefer to view the word " day " ( Arabic: يوم ) as used in the Qur ' an to mean an arbitrary period of time or epoch ; They justify this view by explaining that the usage of the word " day " to mean an arbitrary period of time is not uncommon.

Several Modern Orthodox Jewish scientists have interpreted creation in light of both modern scientific findings and rabbinical interpretations of Genesis.

In some Jewish interpretations, the light created here is a primordial light, different in nature from ( and brighter than ) that associated with the sun.

As in many of his stories, Borges looks at a popular story through a different lens, shedding light on other possible interpretations of the events.

The Zohar contains a number of interpretations of this verse, including the suggestion that " God saw the light that it was good " means that " the universe became lighted up and pervaded throughout with the divine life which preserves it for the common weal and happiness of created and animated beings.