The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.

Little more than a fine old name, valuable principally because of the Franklin tradition, the Saturday Evening Post was slow to revive.

He ate what he felt like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow, dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.

This was a slow and difficult course, and French trade suffered from the many mistakes of the new group of traders.

It was to be expected that Stanley would be shy, slow in taking such a momentous step.

Aside from the fact that business was slow this time of year and his one salesgirl was not the most enterprising, Mr. Phillips had no worries at all, and he said as much to Gun Matson, who sat across from him in civilian clothes, on a Jiffy-Couch-a-Bed, mauve velour, $79.89 nothing-down special!!

But her walk was too steady, too slow, telegraphing her fear.

Mike was slow getting into the box this time.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

Working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier conducted experiments that showed that respiration was essentially a slow combustion of organic material using inhaled oxygen.

Fleming's impression was that because of the problem of producing it in quantity, and because its action appeared to be rather slow, penicillin would not be important in treating infection.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

A steering committee of students was organized on the first day whose duty it was to be alert and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the direction and pace the class was taking.

There was no answer to this and he began to pace back and forth across the room, his imagination out of control.

In 1977, development of a significantly improved Phoenix version, the AIM-54C, was developed to better counter projected threats from tactical anti-naval aircraft and cruise missiles, and its final upgrade included a re-programmable memory capability to keep pace with emerging ECM.

Among the dances described were the solemn basse danse, the livelier branle, pavane, and the galliarde which Shakespeare called the " cinq pace " as it was made of five steps.

Meanwhile, the Dutch assault on Ramillies was gaining pace.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Following the capture of Kilkis, the Greek army's pace was not quick enough to prevent the destruction of Nigrita, Serres, and Doxato and massacres of non-combatant Greek inhabitants at Demir Hisar and Doxato by the Bulgarian army.

The impresario also taught his comedians to vary the pace of their comedy, that a hectic speed was not necessary, and used elements of absurdity that would become familiar in Chaplin gags.

The advantage of this approach was that in exploitation mounted infantry could keep pace with advancing tanks.

The first was in Gloucester in 1950 and the process gathered pace over the next few years, especially after a second television channel, ITV, was launched in 1955 to compete with BBC.

Approaching or entering a battle, the taiko yaku ( drummer ) was responsible for setting the marching pace, usually with six paces per beat of the drum ( beat-2-3-4-5-6, beat-2-3-4-5-6 ).

At Pennsylvania, Sapir was urged to work at a quicker pace than he was comfortable with.

Speaking at 30th anniversary celebrations on 26 July 2006, Commander Bradley Bower said that the greatest challenge facing the navy of a maritime country like Fiji was to maintain sovereignty and the maritime environment, to acquire, restore, and replace equipment, and to train officers to keep pace with changing situations.

Frederick's style of rulership was marked by hesitation and a sluggish pace of decision making.

Playing at pace, Brazil were putting England under enormous pressure and an attack was begun by captain Carlos Alberto who sent a fizzing low ball down the right flank for the speedy Jairzinho to latch on to.

Among the camp prisoners, the number and share of the intelligentsia was growing at the quickest pace.

The draft was considered very large at 150 pages and the pace of browser development, as well as the number of interested parties, had outstripped the resources of the IETF.

During the tournament he played in eight of the team's nine games, averaging 34. 00 with the bat, while his medium pace was used in bowling 20 overs.

His November article in Das Reich was part of his campaign to have the pace of deportation accelerated.

Nehru, however, was not satisfied with the pace of the national movement.

An aggressor would use an agent against which there was a minimal naturally acquired or artificially induced immunity in a target population.

The shame and guilt this method induced, he believed, was far superior to the fear instilled by corporal punishment ; when he used physical " correction " he required that the students be unanimously in support of its application, even including the student to be punished.

The senator Falier was induced to receive him under his immediate protection.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

The study of apoptosis brought on by Bunyaviridae was initiated in 1996 when it was observed that apoptosis was induced by the La Crosse virus into the kidney cells of baby hamsters and into the brains of baby mice.

In 1749, the Mughal ruler was induced to cede Sindh, the Punjab region and the important trans Indus River to Ahmad Shah in order to save his capital from Afghan attack.

The persecution against the orthodox party broke out with renewed vigor, and Constantius II was induced to prepare drastic measures against Athanasius and the priests who were devoted to him.

It is believed that most of the stable beryllium in the universe was originally created in the interstellar medium when cosmic rays induced fission in heavier elements found in interstellar gas and dust.

There was a progressive decline in biodiversity during the Maastrichtian stage of the Cretaceous period prior to the suggested ecological crisis induced by events at the K – Pg boundary ( K – T boundary ).

For instance, a professor of formal logic called Chin Yueh-lin – who was then regarded as China ’ s leading authority on his subject – was induced to write: “ The new philosophy Marxism-Leninism, being scientific, is the supreme truth ”.

Rafael Betancourt was summoned once again, and induced a ground ball off Juan Uribe's bat.

For example, Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty successfully vaccinated and presumably induced immunity with cowpox in his wife and two children during a smallpox epidemic in 1774, but it was not until Jenner's work some twenty years later that the procedure became widely understood.

He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity.

The studies noted that it would be impossible to assume conclusively the likely protective effect of the " other sex acts " including oral sex, or that the correlation between these sexual practices was due to the presence of collinearity induced by some other protective factor not noted in the studies: for example, greater overall frequency of sex.

During Guido's tenure in this office, Paschal II yielded to the military threats of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, and was induced to issue the Privilegium in the year 1111.

It was believed that golems could be activated by an ecstatic experience induced by the ritualistic use of various letters of the Hebrew Alphabet.

It is, indeed, not improbable that it was as a result of this war that Lord Ochiltree's Committee formed the Statutes of Iona in 1609 and the Regulations for the Chiefs in 1616 was induced to insert a clause in the Statutes of Iona by which ' marriages contracted for several years ' were prohibited ; and any who might disregard this regulation were to be ' punished as fornicators '".

The earliest definition of hypnosis was given by Braid, who coined the term " hypnotism " as an abbreviation for " neuro-hypnotism ", or nervous sleep, which he opposed to normal sleep, and defined as: " a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature.

Although Nehru was disdainful of religion, his theosophical interests had induced him to the study of the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures.

Since Poland was regarded as the East European state with the most powerful army, it became imperative to tie Poland to Britain as the best way of ensuring Polish support for Romania, since it was the obvious quid pro quo that Britain would have to do something for Polish security if the Poles were to be induced to do something for Romanian security.