The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

In particular he sought the gentle, sweet-faced nuns, with head coverings and veils coming to the middle of their foreheads, remembering their expressions until he reached home and set them down on paper.

He stumbled to the middle of the road and simply stood there, waiting for them, a perfect target.

The middle section of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal merit, but all of them pretty good at that.

In this temple, entirely decked out in gold, the people worship the statues of three gods in such wise that the mightiest of them, Thor, occupies a throne in the middle of the chamber ; Wotan and Frikko have places on either side.

Most wealthy Cubans lost their rural properties, and many of them joined the urban middle class.

A gag may have a beginning, a middle and an end to them, or they may not.

Clown stops will always have a beginning, a middle and an end to them.

Below them were petty officials, the middle people called Chungin.

The three Greek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard originally formed the baptistery complex of the Constantinean church, the southern most chapel being the vestibule, the middle chapel being the actual baptistery and the north chapel being the chamber in which the patriarch chrismated the newly baptized before leading them into the rotunda north of this complex.

Instead, according to Buddhist thought, a wise person adopts a middle way without holding conventions to be ultimate or ignoring them when they are fruitful.

Complete double-six setDomino tiles, also known as bones, are twice as long as they are wide and usually have a line in the middle dividing them into two squares.

The light from a source located at the top edge of the slit interferes destructively with a source located at the middle of the slit, when the path difference between them is equal to λ / 2.

( In particular, older editions of Settlers did not come with a frame for their board ; a separate add-on was made available for players of the older-edition Settlers games, containing the newer edition frames, so as to make them compatible with the newer edition of Seafarers ; the older edition of Seafarers included a square frame, and while both older and newer editions of the frames have the same width across, the newer edition is not square-shaped, and is longer down the middle of the board compared to the sides.

Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin " e ", some a " 6 " with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small " c "- like curves.

The matter was resolved with a compact between the states, ratified by U. S. Congress in 1834, which set the boundary line between them as the middle of the Hudson River and New York Harbor.

Film-makers slowly progressed from putting these dialogue titles before the scene in which they were spoken, to cutting them into the middle of the shot at the point at which they were understood to be actually spoken by the characters.

In the middle of a bloody demolition derby, Montag unplugs the walls and engages the women into meaningful conversation, only to find them concerned only with pleasure in the present moment and indifferent to the upcoming war, death, their families, and politics.

The government knew that such air raids were impossible but the goal was to psychologically mobilize many thousands of middle class volunteers to make them feel part of the war effort.

* St Vergilius of Salzburg ( c. 700 – 784 ), in the middle of the eighth century, discussed or taught some geographical or cosmographical ideas which St Boniface found sufficiently objectionable that he complained about them to Pope Zachary.

As David Kaiser writes, " since the middle of the 20th century, theoretical physicists have increasingly turned to this tool to help them undertake critical calculations ," and as such " Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics ".

Reliable accounts of the middle and later parts of John's reign are more limited, with Gervase of Canterbury and Ralph of Coggeshall writing the main accounts ; neither of them were positive about John's performance as king.

Aristotle's assertion that "... it will not be possible to be and not to be the same thing ", which would be written in propositional logic as ¬ ( P ∧ ¬ P ), is a statement modern logicians could call the law of excluded middle ( P ∨ ¬ P ), as distribution of the negation of Aristotle's assertion makes them equivalent, regardless that the former claims that no statement is both true and false, while the latter requires that any statement is either true or false.

The Tylopoda have more or less affinity to each of the sister taxa, standing in some respects in a middle position between them, sharing some characteristics from each, but in others showing special modifications not found in any of the other taxa.

From the middle of the 16th century, the papacy politically unified Lazio with the Papal States, so that these territories became provincial administrations of St. Peter's estate ; governors in Viterbo, in Marittima and Campagna, and in Frosinone administered them for the papacy.

To the middle of September 1918, there had been fewer than 10,000 deaths from disease in the new army.

The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.

Instead there are Syeboi Angeilloi, Latinized to Suevi Angili, located south of the middle Elbe.

Inside there would be benches along the side with the hearth in the middle.

The airport itself is split into two architecturally independent sectors, one half serving the French side and the other half serving the Swiss side ; prior to Schengen there was a customs point at the middle of the airport so that people could " emigrate " to the other side of the airport.

In his account he described how “ on one side there was a wooden stage with two streamers – Hatuey beer and Bacardí rum – on each end and a Cuban flag in the middle.

In countries such as Kenya-particularly in Nairobi and other cities where there is an expanding middle class-English is increasingly being used in the home as the first language, albeit with significant lexical influence from and secondary use of Swahili in a context of code-switching.

In major international events, there are seven judges in which case the highest and lowest scores are again discarded and the middle five are summed, then ratioed by, and multiplied by the DD, so as to provide consistent comparison with 5-judge events.

The middle way recognizes there are vast differences between the way things are perceived to exist and the way things really exist.

:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.

It is a Jain philosophical standpoint just as there is the Advaitic standpoint of Sankara and the standpoint of the " middle way " of the Buddhists.

The burial-place of John the Baptist was at Sebaste in Samaria, and mention is made of his relics being honored there around the middle of the 4th century.

There is a statue in the middle of the park honoring soldiers from the civil war, and there are a few benches and some foliage.

Ching-kuo copied Soviet methods, which he learned during his stay there, to start a social revolution by attacking middle class merchants.

In early usage, there were many variants, including medium aevum, or " middle age ", first recorded in 1604, and media scecula, or " middle ages ", first recorded in 1625.

If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value ; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.

A consequence of this definition of truth was the rejection of the law of the excluded middle, for there are statements that, according to Brouwer, could not be claimed to be true while their negations also could not be claimed true.

The position of carbon in the middle of its period in the Periodic Table means that there are precisely enough electrons to fill the energy states.

By the middle of the 6th century, there were three major settlements in northern Arabia, all along the south-western coast that borders the Red Sea, in a habitable region between the sea and the great desert to the east.

Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings are claimed to have been accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the 3rd century.