In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).

But that was a long time ago.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

Perhaps one day He will choose you as He chose me, long ago.

Andrei remembered a Bathyran meeting long ago.

She'd found it by luck most likely but she hadn't said anything and we didn't know how long ago it'd been or how many other ones she'd found, saying nothing.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

Not so long ago many builders were finding they could cut their costs by `` buying direct '' and short-cutting the dealer.

Not long ago a newspaper advised those taking part in a contest that `` snapshots must be of a person not larger than Af inches ''.

As long ago as 1851 it was pointed out by Niepce ( 1851 ) that there is a connection between the pituitary and the thyroid.

Durkheim noted long ago that religion as `` a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things unites into one single moral community all those who adhere to them ''.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

Some of them ignored the texts and had apparently memorized the words long ago.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.

I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.

How long should I wait ''??

Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.

Gracias '', I hollered, my first long swallow filling me with confidence and immediately doubling the size of my Spanish vocabulary.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

Anyway, I wasn't down long enough to matter.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

Knights rode in both the Muslim style, a la jineta ( i. e. the equivalent of a modern jockey's seat ), a short stirrup strap and bended knees allowed for better control and speed, or in the French style, a la brida, a long stirrup strap allowed for more security in the saddle ( i. e. the equivalent of the modern cavalry seat, which is more secure ) when acting as heavy cavalary.

" Thus spoke a forgotten poet long ago in Rohan, recalling how tall and fair was Eorl the Young, who rode down out of the North ," Aragorn explains.

After hearing this response, William rode from Normandy to Bruges, found Matilda on her way to church, dragged her off her horse by her long braids, threw her down in the street in front of her flabbergasted attendants and rode off.

Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair.

Because they were built with spiral staircases ( long since removed ), people rode horses or took carriage rides to the towers in order to climb the stairs and view growing Cincinnati to the south and countryside to the north.

According to an Easton paper of January 19, 1869, Mrs. Sophia Sandt rode from Pennsylvania to New Jersey and back again in her sleigh “ amidst the applause of the people .” The bridge, of the Burr Truss type, was 775 feet long, 18 feet wide, and cost about $ 40, 000 to construct.

Hampden rode as a volunteer with 1, 100 cavalry and dragoons commanded by Sir Philip Stapleton in pursuit of Rupert, with the intention of delaying him long enough for a larger force from Essex's main army to cut off his retreat.

In the case of the Space Shuttle, the astronauts rode a long, curved rail, blown by the wind against their bodies, then deployed their chutes after free-falling to a safe altitude.

Not long after the crash, a group of Anglo-American youths rode their horses over the tops of the settlers ' subterranean homes, damaging them.

Hoekstra rode his bicycle across the district, charging that Vander Jagt had served in Congress for too long.

He rode a used ladies Schwinn and wore a long-sleeved shirt, trousers, woolen long underwear and a silver pith helmet.

Anything that can act as a source of drag in the water can act as a sea anchor ; a common improvised sea anchor is a long line ( a docking warp or anchor rode ) paid out into the water ; while this does not provide much drag, it can act as a drogue and aid in running downwind.

Initially he rode the rails to the Dakotas to labour in the farm fields, before heading to New York working long hours as a dishwasher or banner bearer.

Whilst out hunting he was attacked by a wounded tiger – it was shot in the nick of time by his companion – and rode a giraffe belonging to a friendly Indian prince to win a bet with a brother officer-he stayed on long enough to win the bet, but was trampled badly, its rear hoof breaking through both cheeks and crushing his nose.

Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair.

It retained most of its pre-war styling and rode on the long wheelbase and used a distinctive body not shared with other general Motors divisions.

Umamah, who as a little girl rode on her grandfather Muhammad's back as he prostrated in salat, lived long after his death.

Carson had a long association with trainer Major Dick Hern for whom he rode his first three Derby winners.