Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).

Most of his treasures, if not all, were amassed after he came to Thailand.

Most of the items are placed in the Hen Ogledd or " Old North ", the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and Northern England ; some early manuscripts refer to the whole list specifically as treasures " that were in the North ".

Most of the church treasures were transferred to the Kremlin Armory, or were sold overseas.

Most of Crozat's treasures were inherited by his nephews, Louis François ( d. 1750 ), Joseph Antoine ( d. 1750 ), and Louis Antoine ( d. 1770 ), who added to them.

Most treasures provide an attack bonus to the population in that city.

A somewhat simpler version also given by Nahhas in the passage already cited is as follows: " Most of the Arabs were accustomed to meet at ' Oqaz and recite verses ; then, if the king was pleased with any poem, he said, ' Hang it up, and preserve it among my treasures.

Most of what is known culturally comes from preserved contemporaneous and excavated artifacts and from inter-generational knowledge passed down through northerly outlying tribes of the larger region.

Most of the refectory ( dining hall ) range to the south of the cloister and the dorter range to the east, which contained the chapter house and dormitory, have yet to be excavated.

Most Han stone pictures of Liubo show the players throwing sticks onto a mat between themselves ( with the Liubo board to the side of the mat ), and ceramic model Liubo sets such as the one excavated in 1972 from Lingbao in Henan province show six sticks lined up neatly between the two players.

Most of these are excavated for commercial activities and transported to other cities within the country.

Most of the stones were excavated during the building of the road, varying between one to three tons in weight.

Most of the city has not been excavated and questions like, for example, the relationship between the Theatre and the Cardo Maximus cannot yet be fully explained.

Most of the barrel sections for Big Babylon were delivered to, and assembled on, a site excavated from the side of a hill ; instead of being suspended by cables from a steel framework as originally planned: calculations had shown that the original support framework would be insufficiently rigid.

Most burrow-nesting birds excavate their own burrows, but some use those excavated by other species ; Burrowing Owls, for example, sometimes use the burrows of prairie dogs, ground squirrels, badgers or tortoises, China's endemic White-browed Tits use the holes of ground-nesting rodents and Common Kingfishers occasionally nest in rabbit burrows.

Most of the medieval townsite is not yet excavated, and visitors can see remnants on a field outside the museum confines.

Most of the site still has not been excavated.

Most recently, Tal-i Malyan was excavated by Kamyar Abdi in 1999.

Most of them excavated sites specifically for the tombs of ancient funerary objects.

Most of these are likely to be no more than collections of stones cleared by local farmers ; but just north-west of Arthur's Stone three prominent cairns have been excavated that prove their ancient role-the largest being Great Cairn, a circular heap of stones above a central grave.

Most of us would say that in this delight at the killing of others or the causing of suffering there is something very unfitting.

Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.

Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.

1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.

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

Most of the emphasis has been placed on a `` wild party '' at a seaside villa.

Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.

Most amateurs work at visible wavelengths, but a small minority experiment with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.

Most United States, Canada and Mexico domestic power suppliers run at 120 V.

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Most of the basins take their names from cities or towns located at their rims.

Most historians, including Edward Gibbon, date the defeat at Manzikert as the beginning of the end of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Most of his cases happened during this period and he was at the height of his powers at this point in his life.

Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to grow marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Most of the Alemanni were probably at the time in fact resident in or close to the borders of Germania Superior.

Most of the annual magistracies at Athens could only be held once in a lifetime.

Most forms of artillery require a propellant to propel the projectile at the target.

Most noblemen were educated at home briefly in scripture, rhetoric, calligraphy and basic mathematics.

Most desert and temperate climates get at least of rain per year.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

Most of the film took place at night and the filmmakers shot most of the film during the summer when the days were longest and the nights were the shortest.

Most cantilever bridges use a pair of continuous spans that extend from opposite sides of the supporting piers to meet at the center of the obstacle the bridge crosses.