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.

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

It was even all right sometimes to use the faulty forms of the verb " to be ," as long as one was aware of their structural limitations.

He says, " It is of the vilest baseness to use horses in the war ," when the group hears several wounded horses writhe and scream for a long time before dying during a bombardment.

He also has a " shooting license ," certifying him as sporadically not responsible for his actions due to a head wound, though he is clearly quite sane and exploiting his license so he can stay in the hospital and away from the war as long as possible.

" I told him he was welcome to it ," Tombaugh later remembered, " though he's got to go one long, cold trip.

Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

" The enemy would long ago have been beaten ," he wrote to Vienna, " if everyone had done their duty.

But for non-Jews, these loving actions are sufficient for " great recompense of reward " as long as they " hold fast the profession of our faith Jesus without wavering ," and thus do not need to convert to Judaism.

A controversial claim of the frequentist approach is that in the " long run ," as the number of trials approaches infinity, the relative frequency will converge exactly to the true probability:

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

A characteristic mannerism in Rossini's orchestral scoring is a long, steady building of sound over an ostinato figure, creating " tempests in teapots by beginning in a whisper and rising to a flashing, glittering storm ," which earned him the nickname of " Signor Crescendo ".

It consists of seven miracles or " signs ," interspersed with long dialogues and discourses, including several " I am " sayings.

The marriage vows taken may be for " a year and a day ," " a lifetime ", " for all of eternity " or " for as long as love shall last.

However, spaces between words are not counted, so for instance " hat " is normally short, but it is long in " hat throw ," due to the " th " in the next word.

A longe line is sometimes called a " longe rein ," but it is actually a flat line about long, usually made of nylon or cotton web, about one inch wide, thus longer and wider than even a driving rein.

It contains a number of running jokes, including Miss Sweetie Poo, a little girl who repeatedly cries out, " Please stop: I'm bored ," in a high-pitched voice if speakers go on too long.

A long chain of mountains runs down the middle of the archipelago, dividing it into two halves, the " face ," fronting on the Pacific Ocean, and the " back ," toward the Sea of Japan.

" One can ’ t neglect the people too long ," he wrote.

" Bureaucratic procedures are not always transparent and red tape often makes processing unnecessarily long ," reports the U. S. Department of Commerce.

Venetian painting, in its separate " school ," pursued a separate course, represented in the long career of Titian.