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.

Cessna's workforce remained 50 % laid-off and CEO Jack Pelton stated that he expected the recovery to be long and slow.

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

King Philip I, named by his Kievan mother with a typically Eastern European name, was no more fortunate than his predecessor although the kingdom did enjoy a modest recovery during his extraordinarily long reign ( 1060 – 1108 ).

Berry traveled a long and difficult road toward recovery from brain damage and partial paralysis.

His recovery was long and arduous and did take him away from acting for a time.

Nicholas Balabkins concludes that " as long as German industrial capacity was kept idle the economic recovery of Europe was delayed " and that " To nurse Europe back to economic health the Marshall Plan scrapped the early postwar economic chains of Germany.

Resources from a human use perspective are classified as renewable only so long as the rate of replenishment / recovery exceeds that of the rate of consumption.

CFCs have very long atmospheric lifetimes, ranging from 50 to over 100 years, so the final recovery of the ozone layer is expected to require several lifetimes.

Here, the task is akin to psychological recovery, and the mental hospital, so long a refuge for the discarded and the dispossessed, is now itself discarded.

Despite the absence of a stimulative government policy, however, recovery was not long delayed.

This reduces the saturation of the slow, large P-N junction bipolar transistors that would otherwise lead to long recovery times.

However, even NRZI can have long series of zeros ( or ones if transitioning on " zero "), and thus clock recovery can be difficult unless some form of run length limited ( RLL ) coding is used in addition to NRZI.

* It facilitates the work of a timing recovery circuit ( see also Clock recovery ), an automatic gain control and other adaptive circuits of the receiver ( eliminating long sequences consisting of ' 0 ' or ' 1 ' only ).

Sharks taken during the long interval between birth and sexual maturity never reproduce, preventing population recovery.

In Hong Kong, champerty and maintenance were long thought to be obsolete both as a crime and a tort, but these two principles have been revived in recent years in response to the prevalence of recovery agents which present problems quite different from the mischief which historically these rules intended to combat.

It is thought that this long recovery was due to the successive waves of extinction which inhibited recovery, as well as to prolonged environmental stress to organisms which continued into the Early Triassic.

Sexual intercourse can usually be resumed in about a week ( depending on recovery ); however, pregnancy is still possible as long as the sperm count is above zero.

Housebound during a long recovery, he became interested in cartooning and took several cartooning correspondence courses.

The period of the recovery phase may be as short as 8 hours or as long as 7 days.

Since the supply roll is plastic, the lifespan of a used roll can be years or decades long, permitting image recovery long after disposal.

Lady Caroline was physically ill-suited to childbirth and suffered long recovery periods after each one.

In an interview with Frida she and Green talked about her long recovery from the death of her husband in 1999.