Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

Then the audience saw a small, dim figure appear at the edge of the Presidential box.

He didn't figure her at all, and if he found out a woman it'd be bad.

The length of the arrow indicates amount of slowing or acceleration at Completion over that at Onset, and the difference in months can be read roughly by referring the arrow to the age scale along the base of each figure, or more precisely by referring to the original data in the appropriate tables.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

This latter figure compares with latex foam rubber at an average of 5.5 lb. / cu. ft. in commercial grades.

The Postmaster General recently reported that mail order frauds -- among which fake therapeutic devices figure prominently -- are at the highest level in history.

He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.

almost at once a figure bulked up.

Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.

In the case of an angle ( figure ), the arc is centered at the vertex and delimited by the sides.

At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s.

They had at least two sons, one of whom, Nithard, became a notable figure in the mid-9th century.

Some parts at least of the figure above mentioned are solar symbols, and the Basilidian Abrasax is manifestly connected with the sun.

Maintaining the traditions of the Iranian nobility to which he belonged, he kept excellent stables and became a well-known figure at the Bombay racecourse.

The mercy that Christ infused into Mosaic Law underlies the injury tariffs that figure so prominently in barbarian law codes, since Christian synods " established, through that mercy which Christ taught, that for almost every misdeed at the first offence secular lords might with their permission receive without sin the monetary compensation, which they then fixed.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

I think I'm right in that figure.

Chandler, looking to right and left to see how his men were faring, suddenly saw another figure bounding up the hill, hurling grenades and hollering the battle cry as he ran.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

A few examples of crystallographic defects include vacancy defects ( an empty space where an atom should fit ), interstitial defects ( an extra atom squeezed in where it does not fit ), and dislocations ( see figure at right ).

The figure at right shows a block diagram of a generic heat engine, such as the Carnot engine.

where and h and k are the distances between the successive pentagons on the virus surface for each axis ( see figure on right ).

Mordecai Waxman, a leading figure in the Rabbinical Assembly, writes that " Reform has asserted the right of interpretation but it rejected the authority of legal tradition.

The projection of the spiral motion in a rotating horizontal plane is shown at the right of the figure.

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

The data stored in the warehouse are uploaded from the operational systems ( such as marketing, sales etc., shown in the figure to the right ).

The figure on the right illustrates the difference between distributed and parallel systems.

as can be seen in the figure to the right ( click to enlarge ).

If the viewing distance is large compared with the separation of the slits ( the far field ), the phase difference can be found using the geometry shown in the figure below right.

The figure in the middle is raising his right arm making the oath that they will never disband until they have reached their goal of creating a " constitution of the realm fixed upon solid foundations.

On making the last pass, each dancer makes a whole turn on the end, bearing right if the last pass was by the right shoulder or left if last pass was by the left, and reenters the figure returning to place.

Thus, for example, if we can obtain a decomposition of into a hierarchical composition of functions such that,,, as shown in the figure at right, this would probably be considered a highly valuable decomposition.

A simplified version of this is embodied in Einstein's elevator experiment, illustrated in the figure on the right: for an observer in a small enclosed room, it is impossible to decide, by mapping the trajectory of bodies such as a dropped ball, whether the room is at rest in a gravitational field, or in free space aboard an accelerating rocket generating a force equal to gravity.

The figure on the right illustrates the geometric relationship.

The red dot overtakes two green dots when moving from the left to the right of the figure. New waves seem to emerge at the back of a wave group, grow in amplitude until they are at the center of the group, and vanish at the wave group front. For surface gravity waves, the water particle velocities are much smaller than the phase velocity, in most cases.

A silver Indo-Portuguese coin featuring a standing figure facing right with flag struck for and minted in Goa during the reign of John IV of Portugal | John IV.

A single tablet inscribed with " LEX " ( Latin for " Law ") is held by the figure, which is located to the right of the front steps of the United States Supreme Court Building.

An ellipse is a closed plane curve that resembles a stretched out circle ( see the figure to the right ).

Mies was chosen by the daughter of the client, Phyllis Bronfman Lambert, who has become a noted architectural figure and patron in her own right.

In this miniature, the figure on the left side of the board faces the reader, while the figure on the right leans in to the board with his back to the reader.