It was hotter once they reached the flat, and drier, but the grass was better.

Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

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

The lad's once superb body was a mass of scars and welts.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

There was a battle on an average of once every three weeks.

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

To the Weston house came once William Allen Neilson, the president of Smith College who had been one of my old professors and who still called me `` Boy '' when I was sixty.

and once when he came to see us in New York he walked away in a rainstorm, unwilling to hear of a taxi or even an umbrella, although he was at the time ninety years old.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.

On November 13, 1952, he was classified in Class 1-a.

Thereafter he was classified 1-o.

The aardwolf is usually classified with the Hyaenidae, though it was formerly placed into the family Protelidae.

In 2008, the world's total arable land amounted to 13, 805, 153 km², whereas 48, 836, 976 km² was classified as " agricultural land.

* Moriarty by Modem, a short story by Jack Nimersheim, describes an alternate history where Babbage's Analytical Engine was indeed completed and had been deemed highly classified by the British government.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.

It was classified as a misdemeanor.

Although the book has been historically classified as " prophetic ", the style of writing is apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.

USNS Schuyler Otis Bland ( T-AK-277 ) was known to have brought highly classified " agriculture products " under armed guard to southeast Asia, Okinawa, and Panama.

The ship ’ s logbook was found by Michelle Gatz and shows the ship was carrying classified cargo that was offloaded under armed guard at White Beach a U. S. Navy port on Okinawa ’ s east coast on April 25, 1962.

The first, classified, edition of Factbook was published in August 1962, and the first unclassified version in June 1971.

He classified both what he regarded as good and what he regarded as bad constitutions, and came to the conclusion that the best constitution was a mixed system, including monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements.

Daniel Gorenstein announced in 1983 that the finite simple groups had all been classified, but this was premature as he had been misinformed about the proof of the classification of quasithin groups.

This was essentially done by Gorenstein and Harada, who classified the groups with sectional 2-rank at most 4.

Although classified as camps there were no actual permanent camps ; instead, organized groups moved with their family from project to project, for which a rental allowance was issued in their pay.

CMT was previously classified as a subtype of muscular dystrophy.

The scheme was first published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976, although it was later alleged that it had been separately invented a few years earlier within GCHQ, the British signals intelligence agency, by Malcolm J. Williamson but was kept classified.

However, participation was often restricted to a minority, and so may be better classified as oligarchy.

He completed his recruit training, but was classified for limited service during World War II.

Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.

He was the son of Orhan I and the Valide Sultan Nilüfer Hatun ,( whose name means Water lily in Persian ) daughter of the Prince of Yarhisar or Byzantine princess Theodora Kantakouzene ( also named Nilüfer ), who was of ethnic Greek descent

* The finale was revised and extended, ending with a common-time reworking of " Oh happy the lily ", rather than a straight reprise as previously.

The replacement ( ironically rather closer to Sullivan's discarded original ) was a straight reprise of " Oh, happy the lily " in the form it had taken in the Act I finale, in 9 / 8 time.

Escapin ' through the lily fields </ br > I came across an empty space </ br > It trembled and exploded </ br > Left a bus stop in its place </ br > The bus came by and I got on </ br > That's when it all began </ br > There was cowboy Neal </ br > At the wheel </ br > Of a bus to never-ever land-Grateful Dead, lyrics from " That's It for the Other One "

It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily ( genus Calochortus ) and the Matilija poppy ( Romneya coulteri ) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

Another large glasshouse at Barbrook, on the edge of the park, was devoted to cultivation of the giant Amazon water lily, Victoria amazonica, which flowered in captivity there for the first time.

In 1643 Huygens was granted the honor of displaying a golden lily on a blue field in his coat of arms.

The village name was Kaci-Badon, after the water lily plant Kaci and badon which was the native name for island.

In August 2003, Stephen Sondheim responded to a question about his next project that he was interested in something like a theme and variations — possibly a musical adaptation of Groundhog Day ; however, in a 2008 live chat said that " to make a musical of Groundhog Day would be to gild the lily.

The lily family was formerly a paraphyletic " catch-all " group of petaloid monocots that did not fit into other families.

The water lily leaf, however, was simply chosen as a decorative element without any further significance.

There was a fragrant lily flower growing.

It was formerly placed in its own family Convallariaceae, or earlier, like many lilioid monocots, in the lily family Liliaceae.

Now placed in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae, like many lilioid monocots, the genus was formerly placed in the lily family ( Liliaceae ).

Her work commanded high prices ; in 1928, Stieglitz masterminded a sale of six of her calla lily paintings for US $ 25, 000, which was the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist.

At 6 weeks of age, goatsbeard reached its peak in the diet and sego lily was found in greatest volume a week later.

The marigold was regarded as the flower of the dead in pre-Hispanic Mexico, parallel to the lily in Europe, and is still widely used in the Day of the Dead celebrations.

The lily, a symbol of spring, was officially incorporated as Easter Seals ' logo in 1952 for its association with resurrection and new life.

A diamond brooch in the shape of the flame lily was a gift from Zimbabwe ( then Rhodesia ) to Queen Elizabeth II on a visit in 1947 while she was still the crown princess.

In the borough's coat of arms, the blue and white waves represent this stream ; the lily and rose, derived from Barking Abbey, represent the legend that when the Virgin's tomb was opened it was found to contain lilies and roses.