Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

All false gods resemble Moloch, at least in the early phases of their careers, so it would be unreasonable to expect any form of idol-worship to become widespread without the accompaniment of human sacrifice.

but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.

Or it might have been the absent nephews she addressed, consciously playing with the notion that this was one of the summers of their early years.

We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

Just as modern transportation has outmoded the early Studebaker covered wagon, the demand of today's sportsmen and women has necessitated changes in their equipment.

Another great danger is that the emerging middle class will feel itself increasingly alienated from the political leaders who still justify their dominance by reference to the struggle for independence or the early phase of nationalism.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

Bad alignment may result in early loss of teeth through a breakdown of the bony structure that supports their roots.

That is why Dr. Brodie asks parents not to insist, against their dentist's advice, that their child have orthodontic work done too early.

The girls are prone to dress far more flamboyantly than their counterparts out of town, and eye shadow, mascara, and elaborate bouffant hairdos -- despite the admonitions of cautious guidance personnel -- are not unknown even in early morning classes.

Erikson has noted that, unless this trust developed early, the time ambivalence experienced, in varying degree and temporarily, by all adolescents ( as a result of their remembering the more immediate gratification of wants during childhood, while not yet having fully accepted the long-range planning required by adulthood ) may develop into a more permanent sense of time diffusion.

For many of these unwed mothers, the data on their family life and early childhood experiences revealed several indications and sources of their basic mistrust of their parents in particular and of the world in general.

On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.

-- The 15-year-old adopted son of a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring Grove State Hospital for detention.

Thomas early Sunday went to the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas, 511 Blanche St., NW, looking for his wife, Margaret Lou Thomas, 18, and their 11-month-old baby.

Oersted joined Ritter at Jena and stayed with him for 3 weeks, continuing their correspondence after he left.

In their correspondence the two critiqued each other's work, both submitting to the same publishers, and both being rejected.

Mead received news of Sapir's remarriage while still in Samoa, and burned their correspondence there on the beach.

Allen also attempted correspondence with the people of Quebec and with the Indians living there in an attempt to sway their opinion toward the revolutionary cause.

In his correspondence with Heberden, he wrote, " How much the heart must suffer from the coronary arteries not being able to perform their functions.

* 1920s: Offices of the Brazilian Ministry of Education use Esperanto for their international correspondence.

He formed a close friendship with Martin Zapater at this time, and their correspondence from the 1770s to the 1790s is a valuable source for understanding Goya's early career at the court of Madrid.

Science fiction fanzines had their beginnings in Serious & Constructive ( later shortened to sercon ) correspondence.

" Jackson was to be the most critical of Orwell's marriage to Eileen O ' Shaughnessy but their later correspondence hints at a complicity.

To protect their privacy, Martha Washington burned the correspondence between her husband and her following his death.

On some of the most damaging correspondence, Blaine had written " Burn this letter ," giving Democrats the last line to their rallying cry: " Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the state of Maine, ' Burn this letter!

They asked Carson to carry their correspondence overland to the President.

The " received view " operates on the correspondence rule that states " The observational terms are taken as referring to specified phenomena or phenomenal properties, and the only interpretation given to the theoretical terms is their explicit definition provided by the correspondence rules.

Mead received news of Sapir's remarriage while still in Samoa, and burned their correspondence there on the beach.

In addition to their other properties all particles possess a quantity, which has no correspondence at all in conventional physics, namely the spin, which is some kind of intrinsic angular momentum ( therefore the name ).

In some jurisdictions ( e. g. Singapore ), it is common for physicians to inflate their qualifications with the title " Dr " in correspondence or namecards, even if their qualifications are limited to a basic ( e. g. bachelor level ) degree.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

Soon Marianne receives a curt letter enclosing their former correspondence and love tokens, including a lock of her hair and informing her of his engagement to a young lady of large fortune.

While real-world sound changes often admit exceptions ( for a variety of known reasons, and sometimes without one ), the expectation of their regularity or " exceptionlessness " is of great heuristic value, since it allows historical linguists to define the notion of regular correspondence ( see: comparative method ).

According to a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views which was carried out in November 2009 ( taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and / or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students ) 44. 9 % of respondents accept or lean towards correspondence theories, 20. 7 % accept or lean towards deflationary theories and 13. 8 % epistemic theories.

Many complaints ( all radio stations are required by the FCC to maintain, in their public files, copies of all correspondence from the public relating to station operations – for a period of three years from receipt ) have been received from fans of this musical genre ( Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, big band music ," etc.

The notion that there should be some standard correspondence between the lengths of the sides of a triangle and the angles of the triangle comes as soon as one recognizes that similar triangles maintain the same ratios between their sides.