He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.

He was big.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.

He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

His first ( pre-IHÉS ) breakthrough in algebraic geometry was the Grothendieck – Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem, a far-reaching generalisation of the Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem proved algebraically ; in this context he also introduced K-theory.

" At first I thought, despite everything that I saw with my own eyes, that the Soviet state was a breakthrough into the future, a kind of prototype for all countries ".

It was here where Marlborough made the breakthrough.

1987 was a breakthrough year for Lara, when in the West Indies Youth Championships he scored 498 runs breaking the record of 480 by Carl Hooper set the previous year.

It was a moment ripe for a breakthrough.

His next important breakthrough was in the Opus 33 string quartets ( 1781 ), where the melodic and the harmonic roles segue among the instruments: it is often momentarily unclear what is melody and what is harmony.

It was voted remix of the year and is now regarded as both a hip hop classic and a breakthrough in the remix field.

The second was their breakthrough album, 2112, released the following year in 1976.

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

Rabid was a breakthrough with international distributors and his next two horror features gained stronger support.

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

It was also the first real breakthrough for sampling, as the bassline of Chic's " Good Times " laid the foundation for the song.

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

The action caused an uproar in Israel where the sale was regarded as an important breakthrough in Israels efforts to develop international markets for the Kfir.

The film was a breakthrough having a plot, action, and even a closeup of a hand pulling a fire alarm.

In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough ; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night ( 1948 ), and On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.

A major breakthrough in the development of the modern facsimile system was the result of digital technology.

Kelly's first career breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Time of Your Life, which opened on October 25, 1939, where for the first time on Broadway he danced to his own choreography.

It was this musical film which persuaded Arthur Freed to allow Kelly to make On the Town, where he partnered with Frank Sinatra for the third and final time, creating a breakthrough in the musical film genre which has been described as " the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood.

An important technical breakthrough was the development of procedures for generation of stably transgenic hydras and sea anemones by embryo microinjection.

A key breakthrough was the invention of steam-powered cutting and dressing tools by Alexander MacDonald of Aberdeen, inspired by seeing ancient Egyptian granite carvings.

A great breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), who proposed in 1543 the heliocentric model of the solar system.

This was a breakthrough as it was considered close to the end of the world, with difficult currents that did not encourage commercial enterprise.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.