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half and darkness
In the half darkness the banisters gleamed, and the hall seemed enormous.
She retreated before the naked shame in the old man and the fury beyond it and sank into the darkness of her lodge where Walitzee stirred, mumbling, sitting up in a half stupor to say:
He is an archon with the face of a lion, half flame and half darkness.
For many months in half darkness, Theseus sat immovably fixed to the rock, mourning both for his friend and for himself.
* Tilling in absolute darkness ( night tillage ) might reduce the number of weeds that sprout following the tilling operation by half.
Then comes the story of the struggle between the gods of light and the powers of darkness, and the final victory of Marduk, who clove Tiamat asunder, forming the heaven from half of her body and the earth from the other.
: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it
Headlamp performance has steadily improved throughout the automobile age, spurred by the great disparity between daytime and nighttime traffic fatalities: the U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that nearly half of all traffic-related fatalities occur in the dark, despite only 25 % of traffic travelling during darkness.
Some say they can cut a candle in half without disturbing the flame, others that they can fight in complete darkness, guided only by the faint whisper of their foe's breathing.
The first half evokes the above-described atmosphere of dread, via Prus ' description of an eternal contest between light and darkness.
The second half of the micro-story pictures the efforts of one of a number of nameless lamplighters to dispel the darkness, for as long as his limited lifespan permits.
During the following five and a half days of nearly continuous eruption, residents of Nikolski ( 47 miles southwest ) were stranded for periods of up to three weeks ; Unalaska ( 73 miles northeast ) was repeatedly dusted with ash and flights into and out of this major fishing hub were frequently disrupted ; floating rafts of scoria and high visibility prompted the Coast Guard to close Umnak Pass to marine traffic ; and the Bering Pacific cattle ranch on the flanks of Okmok was periodically evacuated, once during noon-time darkness caused by heavy ash fall.
He soon realized however that the power shortage caused the portal to send him to a different dimension, a place of half darkness and half light.
Overall, the entire rescue mission took three and a half hours of risky hovering in pitch black darkness and high wind conditions to accomplish.

half and I
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
If my pass is approved, I may be a half hour.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.
I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.
Within half an hour I jumped a six-point buck that hop-skipped through a rhododendron thicket, and I caught him just behind the left foreleg at 60 yards.
Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!
I just don't have time to do half the things I want to do now.
Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.
`` But when I arrived and recognised a number of notorious characters I had thrown into the detective bureau basement half a dozen times, I knew I had been framed, and withdrew almost at once ''.
Why, I can get them knocked off for half that much ''.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.

half and approached
In the western half of the city, on a high terrace north of the main street and approached by a fine stairway, was the temple of Athena Polias, a hexastyle peripteral structure in the ionic order built by Pytheos, the architect of the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halikarnassos, one of the seven wonders.
More speed was added and the train traveled five miles in two and a half minutes – she was traveling at 120 miles per hour when she passed through the town of Screven and approached the Little Satilla Bridge.
Under the third Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu, their number approached half a million.
In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half hour episodes, at a budget of £ 10, 000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called ' The Adventures of Robin Hood ', for which she had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market.
In October 1968, a year and a half before the fatal crash, Reuther and his brother Victor were almost killed in a small private plane as it approached Dulles airport.
He held that job for two and a half years, resigning as the 1980 election approached.
As Hortense approached Puerto Rico, the eastern half of the circulation had a concentrated area of thunderstorms.
On September 24 while still in Cow Island Canyon, the train was overtaken by the Nez Perce who approached them unthreateningly and camped one and one half miles away.
Portland was mediocre in the first half of the campaign, but came to form as the playoffs approached and managed to finish third in the Pacific Division with a 49 – 33 win – loss record.
A decade and a half before, Jaguar had turned down the producers of the earlier Saint series when approached about the E-type ; the producers had instead used a Volvo P1800.
After just missing a second medal in the 1000 m ( fourth ), Skoblikova approached the World Record in the 3000 m ( missing it by just half a second ), but that was enough for her second gold medal.
A decade and a half before, Jaguar had turned down the producers of the earlier Saint series when approached about the E-type ; the producers had instead used a Volvo P1800.
Los Angeles prop shop Applied Effects was approached by Randy Erikson to create Mal's main gun, a " Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B ", and gave them a week and a half.
Requesting my companion to remain behind about half a mile, I approached cautiously the wharf with my machine and powder covered by a small box.
Opinion polls in the months before the vote tended to show the public split on the issue, with the " No " campaign taking a clear lead as the referendum approached ; but as many as half of the electorate admitted to having little or no knowledge of the contents and provisions of the Constitution.
Keeping parallel with the road, it passes about 3 chains to the north of the Murchison Meat Company's slaughter yards, 6¼ miles from Perth and when about half a mile from the main road, opposite the Cannington Hotel, the main road is gradually approached, the route being within 10 chains of the Yule and Bickley Brooks.
At the Royal Palace in Caemlyn, Rand approached Nynaeve for help with a major task: he believed he had discovered a way to cleanse the male half of the True Source.
In Mississippi and South Carolina the figure approached one half.
However, approximately half of the remaining forces formed guerrilla units and dissolved into the countryside in preparation for partisan operations against the Red Army as the Eastern Front approached.
The Decepticons were then approached by the Hive-the evil ruling council of Nebulos-to reproduce the Headmasters process with them, but Cyclonus bargained them down to using half of the Decepticons ' heads, and the other half, their weapons.
As Bolívar's force of 6, 500 approached the Royalist position, Bolívar divided his force and sent half on a flanking maneuver through rough terrain and dense foliage.
The four of them recorded several backing tracks, with which Coulam approached soul singer Bell and Greenaway ( who had been half of David and Jonathan ) as vocalists.
:" With Kennedy only eleven votes short of the nomination, Ted Kennedy approached the Wyoming delegation, where Kennedy was known to have eight and a half solid votes, Johnson had six, and one-half vote remained loyal to Adlai Stevenson.

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