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.

It is not known where Vangelis generally resides ; he has stated that he " travels around ", rather than settling down in one specific place or country for long periods of time.

The next king, Æthelred defeated Northumbria in the Battle of the Trent in 679, settling once and for all the long disputed control of the former kingdom of Lindsey.

( McCleary 1997: 2-3 )., ( Bowers 1992: 21 ) Their leader No Intestines had received a vision and led his band on a long migratory search for sacred tobacco, finally settling in southeastern Montana.

Before long, many people began settling in the area.

Though lacking a Sunday School, Jews have had a long history in Sherman, too, settling in the area and meeting for the High Holidays by 1873.

Some loss of wetlands resulted from natural causes such as erosion, sedimentation ( the buildup of soil by the settling of fine particles over a long period of time ), subsidence ( the sinking of land because of diminishing underground water supplies ), and a rise in the sea level.

To foster competition in both the long distance and local markets, the 1996 Act created a process by which the Regional Bell Operating Companies (“ RBOCs ”) would be free to offer long distance service ( which was not permitted under one of the terms of the 1982 Consent Decree settling the government ’ s antitrust case against the former Bell System monopoly ) once they made a showing that their local markets had been opened up to competition.

The seeds are borne on cottony structures that allow them to be blown long distances in the air before settling to ground.

Before long immigrants had thoroughly settled the Great Valley in Pennsylvania and were rapidly migrating and settling southwards into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Not long after the settling of Boston, Noddle Island served as grazing land for cattle.

No Intestines led his band on a long migratory search for sacred tobacco, finally settling in southeastern Montana, where they became known as the Many Lodges or Mountain Crow.

The Cushing family had a long history in the area, settling Hingham in 1638.

However, he and Miller gain an advantage when the partner who advised settling out of court confesses he long suspected Beckett had AIDS but never said anything, and how he regrets his inaction.

By the early 1960s their capability against modern aircraft and missiles was limited ; a lack of fast-reacting mounts, gunsight radars of limited accuracy and long settling times for the fire control systems all meant that the guns were unlikely to be able to respond effectively.

The success in reaching this lock-in at final value is described by overshoot ( how far the response exceeds final value ) and settling time ( how long the output swings back and forth about its final value ).

fullest cooperation to the United Nations in its effort to devise and put into effect an equitable and workable means of settling the difficult situation prevailing there, and to this end, in the interest of peace, good order, and lawfulness, to exert every effort to bring to an early end the acts of violence which have for too long beset that country.

He succeeded in settling a long dispute with the Archbishop of York as to the latter's right to carry his episcopal cross in the province of Canterbury.

Hoar came from a long line of Puritan ancestry, whose family had emigrated to America in 1640 to find religious liberty from England, initially settling in Braintree.

Whitetip reef sharks generally remain within a highly localized area ; only rarely do they undertake long movements, wandering for a while before settling down somewhere new.

The R-3S was the first version to enter widespread production, in spite of a very long seeker settling time on the order of 22 seconds ( as opposed to 11 for the original ).

This church was chosen for several reasons: ( 1 ) Like other baths in Rome, the building was already naturally southerly oriented, so as to receive unobstructed exposure to the sun ; ( 2 ) the height of the walls allowed for a long line to measure the sun's progress through the year more precisely ; ( 3 ) the ancient walls had long since stopped settling into the ground, ensuring that carefully calibrated observational instruments set in them would not move out of place ; and ( 4 ) because it was set in the former baths of Diocletian, it would symbolically represent a victory of the Christian calendar over the earlier pagan calendar.

Although the Samoan Natives ( Tagata Mao ' i ) have long claimed to be the indigenous people of their islands, holding firm to the belief that Samoans were birthed by special creation in Samoa, it has been theorized by many linguists and anthropologists, based on linguistic commonalities as well as archaeological findings, that migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Samoan Islands approximately 3500 years ago, settling in what has come to be known as " Polynesia " further to the east.

After settling into each others place they consult each other by phone, it's not long before they fall in love.