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In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.
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Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;
On a small island, in a tiny hut on stilts, he first read Vannevar Bush's article " As We May Think ", which greatly inspired him.
The team entitled to snap the ball will usually know in advance the moment when the snap is to occur as one of their players calls out signals, which usually include a loud sound such as " hut " voiced one or more times, the number of which they know ; they are thus said to know the " snap count ".
The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only discussed it with Charpentier and Schimper and made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with them, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.
The first season was shot in a rusty military Quonset hut in Pearl City, which the various cast members quickly nicknamed " Mongoose Manor.
In 1948, Troughton made his cinema debut with small roles in Olivier's Hamlet, the TCF production " Escape " ( one of the stars of which was William Hartnell ), and a minor role as a pirate in Treasure Island appearing only during the attack on the heroes ' hut.
These tribes, though physically and administratively separated, shared a common architecture, such as hut structures consisting of circular rooms with tall roofs, which were surrounded by defensive wooden palisades.
At first, the ' negro hut ' in which they lived suited him, and he enjoyed watching people in their daily activities.
There are the remains of a chapel a-top the island, which was later became a " huers hut " — a place where fishermen would make a " hue and cry " call to inform other fishermen of shoals of pilchards.
A simple shelter was made at the foot of the mountain near the Biferten Glacier, the Grünhorn Hut, which was the first mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club.
He abandoned most of this footage ( which included him being chased through the snow by Big Jim, instead of just around the hut as in the final cut ), retaining only the film's opening scene.
Near his lands was a modest hut which had been inhabited, after three triumphs, by its owner Manius Curius Dentatus, whose military feats and rigidly simple character were fresh in the memory of the old, and were often talked of with admiration in the neighborhood.
The English word " tabernacle " is derived from the Latin tabernāculum meaning " tent " or " hut ", which in ancient Roman religion was a ritual structure.
Historians believe this poem became instantly famous: in April, the poets of Edo gathered at the bashō hut for a haikai no renga contest on the subject of frogs that seems to have been a tribute to Bashō's hokku, which was placed at the top of the compilation.
Inside its rampart 15 circular hut sites were found, and a large rectangular building which was probably a temple.
The parish council later requested shelters for passengers on the platforms, which were built in December 1905, followed by a booking hut in 1910.
Since these experiments were not part of the work on quinine which had been assigned to Perkin, the trio carried them out in a hut in Perkin's garden, so as to keep them secret from Hofmann.
Remnants of Neolithic cromlechs and hut circles can be seen on the path, as can evidence of Bronze Age settlement, by which time the peninsula was being used as a connection to ireland.
Between 1964 and 1972, extensive excavations were carried out, in which nine hut foundations were discovered.
The right side of the fuselage hit a wooden hut, inside which was a truck filled with tyres and fuel, which exploded.
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The couple also spent time by the sea in Whitstable together, using the beach hut, which she uprooted and turned into art in 1999 with the title The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here, and which was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire.
I was surprised to find wine of that species, and of a superior quality in such a hut, but they told us it was part of the freight of some unfortunate vessel wrecked near the island.
He chose Portslade because of his love of the sea, of which he wrote :- " Oh, how I am delighted with this sea-scenery and with my little marine hut!
" While Master was away, some men came on a Saturday, about 10 ; I cannot say how many days after master left ; they came on horseback, armed with muskets and swords and pistols ; all were armed ... the blacks, when they saw the men coming, ran into our hut, and the men then, all of them, got off their horses ; I asked what they were going to do with the blacks, and Russel said ' We are going to take them over the back of the range, to frighten them '.
* Nissen hut, semi-circular prefabricated hut invented in 1916 and used in World War I and World War II
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Pullen James humbly lowered his head, pushed aside the hardtack-box door of the hut, and was gone from sight.
Those selected were taken to a hut where their flesh was cut from their bodies while they were alive and they were thrown into a ditch where they later died.
The Javanese people of Indonesia called this constellation Gubug pèncèng (" raking hut ") or lumbung (" the granary "), because the shape of the constellation was like a raking hut.
Shortly after leaving the monastery, Rasputin visited a holy man named Makariy whose hut was nearby.
From his retirement in his modest chacra ( cottage or hut ) at Ibaray, near Asunción, he told countless ordinary citizens who came to visit him that their revolution had been betrayed, that the change in government had only traded a Spanish-born elite for a criollo one, and that the present government was incompetent and mismanaged.
The South Australia Police was formed later that year to protect the community and enforce government regulations and the first gaol, a two roomed hut, was opened on 1 January 1839.
During Rama's exile in the forest, Ravana kidnapped his wife Sita from their hut while Rama was hunting a golden deer, and his brother Lakshman went after him.
After the basic meaning was forgotten, they added a variant word of Old High German gadem ‘ room, one-room hut ’, implying the same meaning: ‘ hay shed ’.
One particular tape scene, of Jim finding a tape in a parking lot attendant's hut, was actually used in three widely-scattered episodes: " The Astrologer ", " Recovery " and " The Vault ".
A ski hut was erected at Mount Baw Baw, just 120 km East of Melbourne, in 1945 and a ski rope tow added in 1955.
He was last seen at the hut of Englishman Edward " Ned " Gurney, a bullock hunter and escaped convict.
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