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.

Washington reorganized the army during the long standoff, and forced the British to withdraw by putting artillery on Dorchester Heights overlooking the city.

After a long standoff with the police and military, the Jamaat al Muslimeen leader, Yasin Abu Bakr, and his followers surrendered to Trinidadian authorities.

** An 81-day long standoff begins between antigovernment Freemen and federal officers in Jordan, Montana.

The conclusion of the four-month long standoff was used by Fujimori and his supporters to bolster his image as tough on terrorism.

Following a week long standoff, a battle began which resulted in the destruction of the Ottoman – Egyptian fleet.

This was not possible as long as the standoff between the airline and the BOT continued.

The relatively new American AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon is a valuable SEAD weapon due to its fairly long standoff range which allows the launching aircraft to avoid being threatened by all but the longest-range missiles, and its relatively large area of destruction against soft targets.

The standoff lasted long into the next morning when Sarah and Sylvester Carrier were found dead inside the house ; several others were wounded, including a child who had been shot in the eye.

Powhatan returned the prisoners but failed to satisfy the colonists with the amount of weapons and tools he returned, and a long standoff ensued.

After a long standoff, a deal was made the following year.

For several long hours there was a standoff between the 3, 000 rebels and the 9, 000 troops loyal to Nicholas I stationed outside the Senate building, with some desultory shooting from the rebel side.

Hortense was now free to respond to the romantic overtures of the man whom she had long admired, Colonel Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut, a sophisticated, handsome man rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand.

However, in 1793 she made a long visit to England, and established a connection with other emigrants: Talleyrand, Narbonne, Montmorency, Jaucourt and others.

Despite this fact, however, he refused the offer of a place in the ministry of the former revolutionary and Bonapartist Talleyrand, pleading both a long absence from France and an ignorance of its conditions.

After a long debate in the House, a second attempt passed Congress on January 13, 1865, and was sent to the state legislatures for ratification.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

US Government export policy has long restricted the ' strength ' of cryptography which can be sent out of the country.

Not long after Constantius sent Julian off to Gaul.

Meanwhile, a human spaceship that was sent out to space long ago when the planetary winter began crashes in some foreign planet and the local civilization buries all evidence of the accident.

Those with visible health problems or diseases were sent home or held in the island's hospital facilities for long periods of time.

The Astros struggled throughout a season that was marked by trade-deadline deals that sent long time Astros to other teams.

ISDN is much better because messages can be sent much more quickly than by trying to encode numbers as long ( 100 ms per digit ) tone sequences.

Finally, in January 1864, after long resisting the plan, Carson sent a company into Canyon de Chelly to investigate the last Navajo stronghold, presuming them to be under the leadership of Manuelito.

In 1562, the Bavarian government sent a long plea to the Holy Roman Emperor asking him to stop the cutting of yew, and outlining the damage done to the forests by its selective extraction, which broke the canopy and allowed wind to destroy neighbouring trees.

But he discovers that the new country he is sent to is in fact the country of the Tree and Forest of his great painting, now long abandoned and all but destroyed ( except for the one perfect leaf of the title which is placed in the local museum ) in the home to which he cannot return — but the Tree here and now in this place is the true realization of his vision, not the flawed and incomplete form of his painting.

Childeric and Theuderic, bereft of their long hair ( Pepin was said to have kept the two severed manes as trophies ), were sent to live in monastic confinement.

For example, if an estimate of how long it takes to break an encryption scheme is one thousand years, and it were used to encrypt details which are obsolete a few weeks after being sent, then this could be deemed a reasonable risk and trade-off.

In 2002, Amnesty International sent a letter to FARC-EP Commander Manuel Marulanda condemning kidnapping and hostage-taking as well as rejecting the threats directed at municipal or judicial officials and their families, arguing that they are civilians who are protected by international humanitarian law as long as they do not participate in hostilities.

All interracial couples are sent eviction notices regardless of how long they have lived on the reserve.

One of " the hundred " sent out by The Founders long ago to explore the galaxy, Odo was found adrift in 2356 in the Denorios Belt by Bajorans.

Susan was sent to attend a local district school, where a teacher refused to teach her long division because of her gender.

Following lengthy daily instructions ( some of which were up to 15 meters long ) sent via teleprinter, the crews were often busy enough to postpone sleep.

In art, vellum was used for paintings, especially if they needed to be sent long distances, before canvas became widely used in about 1500, and continued to be used for drawings, and watercolours.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

According to Cavendish, Anne was sent from court to her family's countryside estates, but it is not known for how long.

For example, in the public telephone network, many telephone calls are sent over shared trunklines by time-division multiplexing ; then for long distance calls several of these channels may be sent over a communications satellite link by frequency-division multiplexing.