Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

Most commonly, intrasexual selection involves male – male competition and intersexual selection involves female choice of suitable males, due to the generally greater investment of resources for a female than a male in a single offspring.

Most prairie dog family groups are made up of one adult breeding male, two to three adult females and one to two male offspring and one to two female offspring.

Most explanations have focused on the blade-like, backward pointed crest of male P. longiceps, however, and ignored the wide range of variation across age and sex.

Most male skinheads in the 1960s had their hair cropped with a # 2 or # 3 grade clip guard ( short, but not bald ).

– Most European countries allow men to compete also, France even allows male only podiums, according to the number of participants.

Most scorpions reproduce sexually, and most species have male and female individuals.

Most species fertilize the eggs internally, with the male depositing a sac of sperm in the female's cloaca.

Most of male population in Siam were in service of court officials while their wives and daughters might do some small-scale trade in local markets.

Most societies have only two distinct, broad classes of gender roles, masculine and feminine, that correspond with the biological sexes of male and female.

Most species appear to be gonochorists, with separate male and female individuals.

Most species have separate male and female flowers, but a few have bisexual flowers.

Most public schools do not have school uniforms although some encourage traditional Emirati clothing such as the kandora for male students and abaya for female students.

Most commercial cultivars are hermaphroditic ; cultivars that produce only functionally female flowers require the presence of male trees.

Most fig inflorescences contain three kinds of flowers: male, short female, and long female.

Most members of the family engage in courtship feeding, where the male presents prey items to the female, and such feeding can account for much if not all of the energy females require for egg creation.

Most of the species are dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some are monoecious.

* Most male waterfowls are very protective in raising their offspring, sharing scout duties with the female.

Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.

Most British and French titles ( particularly newer creations ) of nobility descend to the senior male by primogeniture, to the exclusion of females, and agnatic cadets may bear courtesy titles.

Most dogras are Hindus, but some are Muslims and Sikhs.

Most Sikhs were farmers and lived in the rural areas of Punjab.

Most Sikhs militants inside the complex were killed and the Akal Takht was bombed.

Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.

On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.

) Most people would have to hire a contractor to build this shelter.

Most of Billy Haughton's 2-year-olds have worked from 2:40 to 2:35.

Most drill presses have a quill return spring that raises the spindle automatically when the feed lever is released and holds the quill in the raised position.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

Most Europeans have been exercising newborn infants for centuries.

Most professors in the course must, naturally, again have a higher degree than the course offers.

Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies.

Most of this testimony may have been legally admissible as bearing on the corpus delicti of the total Nazi crime but seemed subject to question when not tied to the part in it of the defendant's Department of Jewish Affairs.

Most of our largest cities have one or more separate vocational or technical high schools.

Most adolescents have some ideological diffusion at various developmental stages, as they experience a proliferation of ideas and values.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.

Most amphibians lay their eggs in water and have aquatic larvae that undergo metamorphosis to become terrestrial adults.

Most alkali metals have many different applications.

Most such printed sources have been updated for intervals of only about every fifty years ( e. g., J1900, J1950, J2000 ).

* Most monocots are unable to thicken their stems once they have formed, since they lack the cylindrical meristem present in other angiosperm groups.

Most aquatic species have a totally submerged juvenile phase, and flowers are either floating or emergent.

Most of the physical properties of astatine have been estimated ( by interpolation or extrapolation ), using various theoretically-grounded or empirically-derived methods.

Most of them have mitred abbots.

Most do not enter the World to Come immediately, but now experience a period of review of their earthly actions and they are made aware of what they have done wrong.

Most Orthodox siddurim ( prayerbooks ) have a prayer asking for forgiveness for one's sins that one may have committed in this gilgul or a previous one.