: From time to time a strange vehicle drew near to the place where they stood — such a vehicle as the lady at the window, in spite of a considerable acquaintance with human inventions, had never seen before: a huge, low, omnibus, painted in brilliant colours, and decorated apparently with jingling bells, attached to a species of groove in the pavement, through which it was dragged, with a great deal of rumbling, bouncing, and scratching, by a couple of remarkably small horses.

Pictures of Lawrence suggest also that O ' Toole carried some resemblance to him, in spite of their considerable height difference.

Most successful early aircraft were biplanes, in spite of considerable early experimentation with monoplanes, triplanes and even quadraplanes.

In spite of the crude nature of some of the pictures and sounds posted to the newsgroup, many of its regular contributors have displayed considerable talent.

The bold player who was lucky and adventurous, and could push on his couch with a considerable stake to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, etc., must in a wonderful manner have multiplied his couch, or first stake ; but this was seldom done ; and the loss of the players, by the very nature of the game, invariably exceeded that of the bank ; in fact, this game was altogether in favour of the bank ; and yet it is evident that, in spite of this obvious conviction, the game must have been one of the most tempting and fascinating that was ever invented.

In spite of the urgings of his friends and the attractiveness of what for the time was the enormous salary of $ 5000 ( plus a good house, rent free ), Eliot, after giving considerable thought to the offer, turned it down.

In spite of her ability to successfully tackle light comedies, tearful melodramas, and even musicals, and as well as garnering considerable praise by the critics and public ( she received the most fan mail of any star in the early 1930s ), she was released by the studio.

In spite of their dullness many of his works are of considerable value, although Horace Walpole questioned his " parts, taste and judgment.

For two centuries the Speyer Jewish community was among the most important of the Empire and, in spite of pogroms, persecution and expulsion, had considerable influence on Ashkenazi culture and the spiritual and cultural life of the town.

There was considerable security controversy over the ownership by a foreign corporation, particularly Arabic, of a U. S. port operation, this in spite of the fact the current operator was the British based P & O Ports,

In spite of considerable development, Wasserfall never became operational.

If the journey time were two minutes, the time necessary with the filling of the higher tank exceeded the ten minutes, obliging to space the departures, in spite of l ' often considerable multitude.

The most common species, the Varied Sittella, was once thought to represent several separate species, including five species in Australia, but in spite of considerable variation in plumage there are extensive zones of hybridization where the forms overlap ( including an area of Queensland where all five Australian subspecies exist ), and are now thought to be a single species with eleven subspecies.

Empress Zewditu I, who in spite of having been treated harshly by her nephew seems to have had considerable sympathy for Iyasu's fate and is said to have tried to have him handed over to her personal custody in order that he " be brought back to Christ and salvation " under her guidance.

In spite of the fact that Horton was 42 years old at the time, and suffering from considerable nearsightedness, former Leafs general manager Punch Imlach signed Horton for the Sabres in 1972.

In spite of its unpredictable character, the river helps to irrigate considerable areas in Palladam taluk of Coimbatore District and Kangeyam taluk of Erode District. But due to the chemical waste came from tirupur dying factories this river water cannot used for the agriculture.

In spite of the many calls upon his time he produced a considerable amount of literary work, usually on classical or Scottish subjects, including some poems and songs of no mean order.

In spite of this, the single player received considerable praise for its technically challenging racing and fusion of popular culture elements.

That is sufficient to provide an unprecedented range of more than 300 miles ( 480 km ) between fill-ups, in spite of the vehicle's considerable 2, 170-kilogram mass and large dimensions: The Sequel is just short of five-metres long ( 4994 mm ), and uses an exceptionally long ( 3040 mm ) wheelbase.

In spite of the use of the word “ servant ,” Aes Sedai had considerable status and respect, gained from their use of the One Power.

However, in spite of President Gowen's glowing predictions at year-end 1883, " carcely any of the benefits of plan of reorganization had been secured ; fixed charges had not been reduced, because it had been impossible to get creditors to take new securities in exchange for the old, and equally impossible to sell any considerable amount of the new securities for cash.

:" As long as their ammunition held out, the troops, though losing considerable in the fight, maintained their position in spite of the efforts of the Sioux.

In spite of being only fourteen at the time, Richard showed considerable statesmanship qualities in riding out on horseback to meet with the rebel leaders.

The first volumes of Die Fliegen were published by Meigen himself, but the costs were high, in spite of a considerable list of subscriptions.

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

Critics maintain that, in spite of a host of similarities between the traditions, some of the similarities could be dismissed as common literary traditions and devices.

In spite of these labours he did not refrain from literary industry.

Multatuli now began his literary career, and published Love Letters ( 1861 ), which, in spite of their mild title, were mordant, unsparing satires.

" In Mary Colum's Life and the Dream, she writes of hearing about the Rising from America, where she was living with her husband, Pádraic Colum, remembering Tomás MacDonagh saying to her: " This country will be one entire slum unless we get into action, in spite of our literary movements and Gaelic Leagues it is going down and down.

Despite the fact of not being the oldest Croatian Glagolitic monument ( the Plomin tablet, Valun tablet, Krk inscription, are older and appeared in the 11th century ) and in spite of the fact that it was not written in the pure Croatian vernacular-it has nevertheless been referred to as " the jewel of the Croatian language " and " the baptismal certificate " of Croatian literary culture.

Suffering from writer's block, under pressure from his publishers, and inspired, in spite of himself, at the thought of doing real good, Pratt reluctantly agrees to assume the persona of his literary creation and to live as the image he created of an adventurous and heroic man.

In spite of all these public duties, which he carried through with the utmost diligence, Forssell also found leisure for an abundant literary activity.

In spite of his growing literary interests, Klein's early poetry of the 1920s and 1930s was largely concerned with Jewish themes, including the history of Jews in Western society (" Design for Mediaeval Tapestry "), the importance of religion as a mediating force in modern society (" Heirloom "), and tributes to important figures in Jewish culture (" Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens ," about the philosopher Spinoza ).

In spite of the highly developed literary activity from early in Korean history, song lyrics were not recorded until the invention of Hangul ( han ' gul ).

His writing, which is centred in the local and the picturesque and is in a general sense affiliated with the Romantic tradition, is often regarded in contrast to that of Eça de Queiroz-a cosmopolitan dandy and a fervorous proponent of Realism, who was Camilo's literary contemporary in spite of being 20 years younger.

Younger brother of the literary celebrity and political figure Hans Magnus Enzensberger, he maintained a relatively low media profile throughout his career, in spite of being embroiled in one of the more interesting literary scandals of early 70s Germany.

In spite of updated sets and production changes, Coronation Street still received criticism.

In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, food industry is still giving up to 14 % of total industrial production and amounts to 7-8 % of the country's exports.

In spite of the significant drop in the last decade, food industry is still giving up to 14 % of total industrial production and amounts to 7-8 % of the country's exports.

Thus, during the Great Depression, the company maintained steady production levels in spite of the lack of demand for aluminum.

In spite of these declarations, the EU Commission proposed the continuation of cotton subsidies, coupled to production.

In spite of the show's popularity, the show was beset with production delays and censorship battles with Nickelodeon, which fired Kricfalusi in 1992.

In spite of efforts to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of its production, the last cotton spun in the town was in 1998.

However, in spite of the continuous emergency in which the Relapse production was mounted, most of Vanbrugh's original intentions were eventually carried out.

In spite of this, the film was considered a failure and did not recover its production costs upon initial release.

In spite of the relatively successful box office returns of Clash of the Titans, more sophisticated technology developed by ILM and others began to eclipse Harryhausen's production techniques, and so MGM and other studios passed on funding the making of his follow-up story, Force of the Trojans, causing Harryhausen and Schneer to retire from active filmmaking.

Also very well known artists with a status of a " classic ", J. Karjalainen and Pauli Hanhiniemi have in their contemporary production gone to the direction of folk-music although this music has in spite of being recognized by critics, been left unnoticed by the larger public.

In spite of these early successes, other German designs quickly eclipsed von Ohain's, and none of his engine designs entered widespread production or operational use.

Henry Ford felt that he had succeeded in spite of, not because of, experts, who had tried to stop him in various ways ( disagreeing about price points, production methods, car features, business financing, and other topics ).

In spite of efforts to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of its production, the last cotton was spun in the town in 1998.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenfilm became a quasi-private film production company of Russia, retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St. Petersburg.

Perhaps the peak of Carpeaux's production was his eight-volume História da Literatura Ocidental ( History of Western Literature ), unfortunately available only in Portuguese, in spite of being in public domain.

But in spite of all of these problems, the Mark XV was so superior to any other design that the Navy ordered it into production.

1841 – 1881, the population of Laoise, which was then called the Queens County halved from mass emigration and starvation, in spite of the fact that Co. Laoise and most other counties increased food production throughout the period.

However, the peak production under BLMC was 62, 834 in 1972, in spite of exports increasing from one ( 1 ) car in 1971 to over 17, 000 in 1974.

In spite of many predictions that other technologies would always beat LCDs, massive investment in LCD production, manufacturing, and electronic image processing has addressed many of these concerns.

This was in spite of the fact that plasmas continued to hold an image quality advantage, but as the president of Chunghwa Picture Tubes noted after shutting down their plasma production line, " Globally, so many companies, so many investments, so many people have been working in this area, on this product.

" In spite of the history and reputation, when NUMMI reopened the factory for production in 1984, most of the troublesome GM workforce was rehired, with some sent to Japan to learn the Toyota Production System.

Candescent pushed ahead with development in spite of problems, breaking ground on a new production facility in Silicon Valley in 1998, partnering with Sony.

In spite of changes made by Hollingworth to rectify the soap opera's early problems ( ratings improved over the course of the show's run, as did the quality of the storylines ), it was claimed that this was not enough to justify its continued production, and incoming Controller of BBC1 Alan Yentob cancelled the programme, which had been commissioned by his predecessor Jonathan Powell.