Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.

The theme of glorious summer coming after a long winter of discontent and repression was, he has told us, congenial to his artistic sense.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

but I liked to think of him at ninety swimming and working at Key West long after Hemingway had moved to Cuba.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

Yet after long and earnest discussion Stalin accepted the Curzon Line and even agreed voluntarily that there should be digressions from that line of five to eight kilometers in favor of Poland in some regions.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

Nor have we remembered that in the melting pot of America the hundreds of isolated and semi-isolated ethnic, regional and occupational groups did not fuse into a homogeneous national unit until long after education and industrialization had caused them to cast oral tradition aside as a means of carrying culturally significant material.

Not long after moving in she turned up a richly carved desk, hewed from the timbers of the British ship H.M.S. Resolute and presented to President Hayes by Queen Victoria.

The New Bedford Standard-Times has reported Knowlton as saying, long after the trial, that if he only knew what Borden said during his conversation with Morse, he would have convicted `` somebody ''.

This was long after Morse had left the house.

He cited East Germany where after 15 years of Soviet rule it has become necessary to build a wall to keep the people in, and added, `` so long as people rebel, we must not give up ''.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

The original impulses came to England late ( in the sixteenth century ) and continue strong long after everyone else had gone on to the baroque basso continuo, sonatas, operas and the like.

Carson McCullers, after a long, painful illness that might have crushed a less-indomitable soul, has come back with an absolute gem of a novel which jumped high on best-seller lists even before official publication.

Not until long after the war -- 1950, in fact -- did they get a hint of the reason.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

`` You share a refrigerator '', Mrs. Kirby had said, and somehow, at midnight, after the long drive from New York in pelting rain, that had sounded reasonable.

Each man had a bubble to himself, privacy after the long period of enforced intimacy on board the ship.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

A process of elimination which leaves the artist with nothing but the play of his materials themselves cannot sustain interest in either artist or public for very long.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.

The leaves are 3 – 5 inches long, with a serrated margin and a petiole.

It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.

They are fast-growing deciduous trees growing to 25 – 45 m tall, with spreading branches and large ( 40 – 100 cm ) pinnate leaves with 15-41 long pointed leaflets, the terminal leaflet normally present, and the basal pairs of leaflets often lobed at their bases.

It has several strap-shaped, green leaves, 30 – 50 cm long and 2 – 3 cm broad, arranged in two rows.

Another similarity to the okapi, even though the bongo is unrelated, is that the bongo has a long prehensile tongue which it uses to grasp grasses and leaves.

The leaves are 5 – 10 cm long, pinnate or bipinnate, thread-like leaflets.

The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate leaves with rhombic leaflets 3 – 6 cm long and 2 – 4 cm broad.

Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to long and in height ; they have slender, wiry stems that are not thickly woody and have small evergreen leaves.

It differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being larger, 10 – 20 mm long, and in its slightly apple-like taste.

Dill grows to, with slender stems and alternate, finely divided, softly delicate leaves long.

The first year of growth of the common foxglove produces only the stem with its long, basal leaves.

The leaves are alternate, 10 – 20 cm long and 5 – 18 cm broad, with a lobed or toothed margin.

In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed that the giraffe's long neck was an " acquired characteristic ", developed as generations of ancestral giraffes strived to reach the leaves of tall trees.

The leaves are 2 – 5 cm long with a densely crinkled surface, and are covered in downy hairs.

Depending on the distance between where the loop is drawn through the fabric and where it is knitted, dip stitches can produce a subtle stippling or long lines across the surface of the fabric, e. g., the lower leaves of a flower.

The leaves are 3 – 12 cm long and 1 – 4 cm wide.

This root gives off at the surface of the ground a rosette of ovate-oblong to ovate, wrinkled, crisp, sinuate-dentate to entire leaves, long, somewhat resembling those of the tobacco-plant.

A long exposure time leaves the user vulnerable to beam drift or instability which may occur during the exposure.

Oregano is a perennial herb, growing from 20 – 80 cm tall, with opposite leaves 1 – 4 cm long.

The silvery green leaves are oblong, measuring long and wide.