He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

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 ''.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

The most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row, an extremely uncommon occurrence ( but not more nor less common than any of the other 67, 108, 863 sequences of 26 red or black, neglecting the 0 slot on the wheel ), and gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black after the black streak happened.

According to an eight-state study, the insanity defense is used in less than 1 % of all court cases and, when used, has only a 26 % success rate.

Since 1996, the restitutions, according sometimes to less formal criteria, concerned 47 more pieces ( 26 paintings, with 6 from the Louvre including a then displayed Tiepolo ), until the last claims of French owners and their heirs ended again in 2006.

On 26 February 1491, a matrimonial arrangement was drawn up between Lucrezia and the Lord of Val D ' Ayora in the kingdom of Valencia, Don Cherubino Joan de Centelles, which was annulled less than two months later in favour of a new contract engaging Lucrezia to Don Gaspare Aversa, count of Procida.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

Wersching then kicked his fourth field goal to increase the 49ers lead to 26 – 14 with less than 2 minutes left in the game.

Anderson completed 6 consecutive passes on the Bengals ensuing drive, the last one a 3-yard touchdown pass to Ross, to make the score 26 – 21, but with less than 20 seconds left in the game.

Its small scattered group of atolls has poor soil and a total land area of only about 26 km², less than.

The IBRD reported $ 26. 7 billion in lending commitments for 132 projects in fiscal year 2011, significantly less than its $ 44. 2 billion in commitments during fiscal year 2010.

Some parts of the British press and British government expected the campaign to be over within months, and the protracted war gradually became less popular, especially after revelations about the conditions in the concentration camps ( where 26 thousand women and children died of disease and malnutrition ).

Hence, the total length increases by one third and thus the length at step n will be ( 4 / 3 )< sup > n </ sup > of the original triangle perimeter: the fractal dimension is log 4 / log 3 ≈ 1. 26, greater than the dimension of a line ( 1 ) but less than Peano's space-filling curve ( 2 ).

She held the latter title for less than two years, from 26 June 1483 until her death in March 1485.

The subsequent single-only release " Shakespeare's Sister " reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart, although the only single taken from the album, " That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore ", was less successful, barely making the top 50.

They have a large wheel diameter, between 26 and 36 in., so more distance is covered in less pedal rotation.

* High availability of services, when the downtime is less than 5. 26 minutes per year

Hughes wrote the screenplay in less than a week, as his logbook notes: " 2 – 26 Night only 10 pages ... 2 – 27 26 pages ... 2 – 28 19 pages ... 3 – 1 9 pages ... 3 – 2 20 pages ... 3 – 3 24 pages.

Follow-up single " Look on the Floor ( Hypnotic Tango )", however, was less successful peaking at No. 26 which was followed by the Drama album which peaked at No. 169.

287 / 385 1. 75 miles south of the Cimarron River is the only place in the US less than 27 miles from five different states: 26. 99 miles from Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas and seven miles from Colorado.

It was expected that a siege of perhaps several weeks would be required, but the army took the city in less than a day, 26 July 1346, storming and sacking it, killing 3, 000 of its citizens, and burning much of the merchants ' quarter on the Ile Ste-Jean.

By this time, the Blow family had relocated to Missouri and become opponents of slavery, granting the Scotts emancipation by Henry Taylor Blow on May 26, 1857, less than three months after the Supreme Court ruling. Scott went to work as a porter in St. Louis for nearly 17 months before he died from tuberculosis in September 1858.

At home the percentages of the languages residents speak are English 70. 47 %, Spanish 6. 26 %, Chinese 5. 96 %, Japanese 2. 70 %, Mandarin 1. 80 %, Cantonese 1. 57 %, Persian 1. 43 %, Tagalog 1. 30 %, Korean 1. 08 %, French 0. 90 %, German 0. 83 %, Formosan 0. 73 %, Italian 0. 66 %, Vietnamese 0. 57 %, Urdu 0. 50 %, and 3. 23 % of people spoke some other language which represented less than 0. 50 % of the population.

The density of each is around 0. 87 g / mL ( 7. 26 lb / U. S. gallon or 8. 72 lb / imp gallon ) and thus is less dense than water.

The residential Towers of Bologna numbered between 80 to 100 at a time, the largest of which still rise to 97. 2 m. In Florence, a law of 1251 decreed that all urban buildings should be reduced to a height of less than 26 m, the regulation immediately put into effect.