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.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.

He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation -- the sort of change which Tacitus was talking about when he said, `` They make a desert, and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant ''.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

The earlier of them was an unofficial enterprise, sponsored by Life magazine, under the title of The National Purpose.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

As the press in Cuba was gradually throttled by the Castro regime, more and more Cuban publishers, editors and correspondents were forced into exile.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

To reduce heat transfer from the hot gas to this anode holder outside the regime of the arc, a carbon shield was attached to the surface providing an air gap of 1/16 inch between the plate and the surface of the anode holder.

Anderson operated three Havana automobile service stations and was commander of the Havana American Legion post before it disbanded since the start of Fidel Castro's regime.

that its persistent use by ballet companies of the Soviet regime indicates that that old spirit is just as stultifying alive today as it ever was ; ;

When it was my turn, I, too, printed the truth as I knew it about Batista, and rejoiced to see his regime topple.

New schools were rising, but with this went a harsh proclamation: any academic degree earned during Batista's regime was invalid.

There would be changes made, and Signor Raymond should understand that when the Pope died it was like the end of a regime in Rome.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

Angola's war for independence did not end in a military victory for either side, but was suspended as a result of a coup in Portugal that replaced the Caetano regime.

Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich ; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime.

Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Cánovas was the real architect of the new regime of the Restoration.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

Finally, on 10 November 1989, at the November plenum of BCP Todor Zhivkov was dismissed as a long-time party leader and head of state and the communist regime gave way to democratic elections and government.

When pro-reform forces came into power in the spring 1997, an ambitious economic reform package, including introduction of a currency board regime, was agreed to with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and the economy began to stabilise.

The reversion to this old regime was formalized under the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits of July 1936.

The school existed in three German cities ( Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933 ), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime.

The Nazi movement, from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its " degenerate art ", and the Nazi regime was determined to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably Jewish influences of " cosmopolitan modernism.

The 89th compagnie de travailleurs étrangers ( Company of Foreign Workers ), consisting of foreigners judged as undesirable by the Third Republic and the Vichy regime and committed to forced labour, was established in Barcelonnette.

The regime was so austere that Bernard became ill, and only the influence of his friend William of Champeaux and the authority of the general chapter could make him mitigate the austerities.

It was expected that the UK Government's liberalisation of the UK bankruptcy regime would increase the number of bankruptcy cases ; the Insolvency Service statistics appear to bear this out:

Gaddafi was the first head of state to recognize the new regime, and he also signed treaties of friendship and cooperation on various levels ; but regarding the Aouzou Strip Déby followed his predecessor, declaring that if necessary he would fight to keep the strip out of Libya's hands.

His regime was characterized by numerous human rights atrocities.