Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

Neither was he very powerful of build.

He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

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

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

He was a florid, puffy man in his early sixties, very natty in his yachting cap, striped jacket and white flannels.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

he was very thirsty, but he must observe water discipline.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

He was over six feet tall and very thin.

The fear of disease was formerly very much the kind of fear I have tried to describe.

`` I knew I was carrying on with abstraction to its very end -- for me '', he said of the two years' output in Virginia.

It was very widely read, too ; ;

She was now enjoying the voyage very much.

Ann was very troubled.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

This was probably much more meaningful because all the women in the class emphasized it time and again.

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

The use of birds was very meaningful to these people because birds were seen as defending animals in the spirit world.

We should not underestimate the significance of this point, as education was the bottom line qualification for being a junzi or " noble person ,"... her example suggests that the Confucian prescription for a meaningful life as a woman was apparently not stifling for all women.

It has been argued that while this strategy was extremely effective in advancing the safety, dignity and equality of Canadian homosexuals, its emphasis of sameness came at the expense of difference and may have undermined opportunities for more meaningful change.

The NRC researchers knew that for their results to be credible within the scientific community and to have the most meaningful results, they had to eliminate bias, and blind testing was the only way to do so.

It was later determined that humans impose meaning even on nonsense syllables to make them more meaningful.

Pei was unfamiliar with the movement's beliefs, but explored them in order to represent something meaningful in the tower.

In 1963 he published an article that was extremely influential in the field: " Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements ".

Rubik acknowledges that the small sample size in her experiments " was too small to permit a meaningful statistical analysis.

A significant failure in terms of technological development was not to develop a long-range bomber and capable long-range fighters during this period leaving the Luftwaffe unable to conduct a meaningful strategic bombing campaign throughout the war.

These two constituted the entire universe of meaningful judgements ; anything else was nonsense.

Popper's concern was not with distinguishing meaningful from meaningless statements, but distinguishing scientific from metaphysical statements.

When they complained that a fee was charged for attending his lecture at the University and that hitherto, lectures by visiting scholars had been free-of-charge, Friedman replied that previous lectures had not been free-of-charge in a meaningful sense: Lectures always have related costs.

This allows the Web page authors to give a more meaningful description for listings than might be displayed if the search engine was unable to automatically create its own description based on the page content.

After the June 12, 1993, Nigerian presidential election was annulled, and in light of human rights abuses and the failure to embark on a meaningful democratic transition, the United States imposed numerous sanctions on Nigeria.

Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3. 5 million in 1871, lacked the practical means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land -- building a transcontinental railway was national policy of high order in changing this situation.

Neither the Sovereign nor the House of Lords had any meaningful influence over who was elected to the Commons in 1997 or in deciding whether or not Blair would become Prime Minister.

The concept of the " republic " itself was not a meaningful concept in the classical world.