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.

Egbert was devoted to Alcuin, who thrived under his tutelage.

He was educated at the court of his father at Constantinople under the tutelage of the poet Aemilius Magnus Arborius.

According to Sun Yat-sen's plans, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) was to rebuild China in three steps: military rule, political tutelage, and constitutional rule.

It was during this time he greatly refined and expanded his mathematical, astronomical and surveying skills under the tutelage of Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Philip Turnor.

Under Conner's tutelage, he studied military history and theory ( including Carl von Clausewitz's On War ), and later cited Conner's enormous influence on his military thinking, saying in 1962 that " Fox Conner was the ablest man I ever knew.

To save Elvira's honor, her family kept her infant and took him to the near village of Bolaños de Calatrava, and Diego was later transferred to Aldea del Rey under the tutelage of Sancha López del Peral.

When Almagro turned four, he was left under the tutelage of an uncle named Hernán Gutiérrez.

Under his tutelage, the company was noted for fair treatment of workers and for pioneering safe and sanitary food preparation.

Hawkins's act was popular in and around Toronto and he had an effective way of eliminating his musical competition: When a promising band appeared, Hawkins would often hire their best musicians for his own group ; Robertson, Danko, and Manuel came under Hawkins ' tutelage this way.

It was in the Downend orchard and as members of their local cricket clubs that he and his brothers developed their skills, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Alfred Pocock, who was an exceptional coach.

His fundamental opinion was that cricketers are " not born " but must be nurtured to develop their skills through coaching and practice ; in his own case, he had achieved his skill through constant practice as a boy at home under the tutelage of his uncle Alfred Pocock.

In one incident during his tutelage with Crates, he was made to carry a pot of lentil soup around the city.

On 9 November 1313, Frederick was beaten by Louis in the Battle of Gamelsdorf and had to renounce the tutelage.

Ingres's musical talent was further developed under the tutelage of the violinist Lejeune.

Lucan was the son of Marcus Annaeus Mela and grandson of Seneca the Elder ; he grew up under the tutelage of his uncle Seneca the Younger.

Despite this, in 1405 James was under the protection and tutelage of Bishop Henry Wardlaw of St Andrews on the country's east coast.

While in Moscow, Ching-kuo was given the Russian name Nikolai Vladimirovich Elizarov ( Николай Владимирович Елизаров ) and put under the tutelage of Karl Radek at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.

Having been exposed to erudite philosophical literature as a young boy under the tutelage of Isaco Garsin, his maternal grandfather, he continued to read and be influenced through his art studies by the writings of Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Carducci, Comte de Lautréamont, and others, and developed the belief that the only route to true creativity was through defiance and disorder.

The Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti stayed at the Carrington in the 1920s when he was under the tutelage of the Theosophical Society.

One of the first pieces composed during the period of Bridge's tutelage was the Quatre Chansons Françaises for soprano and orchestra, though it appears that Britten's abilities as an orchestrator were essentially self-taught rather than learned from Bridge.

In a famous incident under Drona ’ s tutelage, Drona deemed none of his students other than Arjuna had the steadfast focus to shoot a bird on a tree and was proved right by Arjuna.

Under his tutelage, he wrote The Head of the Family, which was performed at the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1912.

In 1679, Louis XIV of France dictated the terms of a general pacification, and Charles XI, who is said to have bitterly resented " the insufferable tutelage " of the French king, was forced at last to acquiesce in a peace that managed to leave his empire practically intact.