Often a meal will be prepared of favorite foods of the family's and community's beloved dead, a place set for them at the table, and traditional songs, poetry and dances performed to entertain them.

Often they consume plant matter, though they have also been known to feed on aphids, spiders, insect eggs, dead plants and insects, among other things.

Often one of the duo members, the straight man, feed, dead wood, or stooge is portrayed as reasonable and serious, and the other one, the funny man, banana man or comic is portrayed as funny, less educated or less intelligent, silly, or unorthodox.

Often, people mistake this stage as a dead, or dying, caterpillar.

" Often the pretence is that the child's parents are dead when in fact the child's parents are still alive.

Often dead trees accumulate in this zone, either from windfalls on the shore or logs transported to the site during floods.

Often these grammatical authorities form the centre of anecdotes: Aeneas is often referred to as Virgil's teacher ; an elderly Spanish grammarian visits Virgil in the dead of night ; and others wage war with thousands of men over grammatical definitions.

Often his research was simple: he would review period newspapers of the dates of reported incidents and find reports on possibly relevant events like unusual weather, that were never mentioned in the disappearance stories.

Often these were accompanied by quirky logos such as the face logo for Blockhead, advertisements and promotional items.

Often, they were clerics trained in the Roman canon law.

Often, motifs and initials were stitched on household items to identify their owner, or simply to decorate the otherwise-plain cloth.

Often posted on bulletin boards, clipped strips had an ancillary form of distribution when they were faxed, photocopied or mailed.

Often however Beavers with testicles intact, after escaping as far away as possible, have drawn in the coveted part, and with great skill and ingenuity tricked their pursuers, pretending that they no longer possessed what they were keeping in concealment.

Often slow-moving and overbearing with " cuteness ", Jones ' early cartoons were an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney's shorts ( especially with such cartoons as Tom Thumb in Trouble and the Sniffles cartoons ).

Often new requirements necessitated gathering, cleaning and integrating new data from " data marts " that were tailored for ready access by users.

Often, there were special prizes and penalties for one's performance in the game.

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

Often hulls were built of steel only 1 / 8in thick.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

Often enough, the first records potentially describing use of gunpowder in warfare were written several centuries after the fact, and may well have been colored by the contemporary experiences of the chronicler.

Often, one finds statements that Soviet POWs on their return to the Soviet Union were often treated as traitors ( see Order No. 270 ).

Often these games were recreation for British soldiers on postings.

Often these were older veterans.

Often, such tests were conducted without evacuating or even alerting the local population.

Often forced to abandon traditional mounted archery for hand-to-hand combat, many samurai found that their swords were too delicate and prone to damage when used against the thick leather armor of the invaders.

Often local officials were assigned minimum quotas of kulaks to identify, and were forced to use their discretionary powers to " find " kulaks wherever they could.

Often the concatenation changed the part of speech ; i. e., nouns were produced from verb segments or verbs from nouns and adjectives.

Often artistic representations of female sexuality suggest trends or ideas on broad scales, giving historians clues as to how widespread or accepted erotic relationships between women were.

Often riffs were not doubled by guitar, bass and drums exactly, but instead there were melodic or rhythmic variations ; as in " Black Dog ", where three different time signatures are used.

Often it is said to be " about " long.

Often said to have been a son of Sybil Corbet.

* Adam Smith: Often said to have founded modern economics ; explained emergence of economic benefits from the self-interested behavior (" the invisible hand ") of artisans and traders.

; Freeboarding: Often said to be the board whose feel is the most similar to snowboarding.

Often, the École des Beaux-Arts school of design is said to have primarily promoted top-down design because it taught that an architectural design should begin with a parti, a basic plan drawing of the overall project.

Often they have a " sign-in " page where you put your label or name, then each page will often contain a question which you answer ( i. e. When was the last time you said " I love you ") and the signer would write the appropriate response.

Often such an object is said to be connected if, when it is considered as a topological space, it is a connected space.

Often yuánfèn is said to be the equivalent of " fate " ( as is with the title of a 1984 movie, given the western name Behind the Yellow Line, starring Leslie Cheung ) or " destiny ".

Often minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of constulting with party represenitives with Congressional representation.

Often, however, the said trap would fail, with the outcome usually being that Shaggy or Scooby-Doo would be captured instead, or the trap would miss.

Often, practitioners are said to have lived for hundreds of years, and there are inconsistencies in the lifespan dates given, making it impossible to construct a sensible timeline.

Often minor parties form part of a larger major party, and through that membership it can be said that the king fulfills his constitutional mandate of consulting with party representatives with Congressional representation.

Often said by music critics to be about her break-up from Jones and moving on with her life, the song reached No. 1 on the U. S. country singles charts, and No. 84 on the pop singles charts, becoming her first single in eight years to enter the pop charts.

Often criticism was governed by very strict cultural rules of politeness, propriety and decency, and there could be immediate penalties if the wrong words were said or written down ( in 17th century England, more than half of men and about three-quarters of women could not read or write ).

Often the connotation is, that if a deliberation is a " critique " and not just a " criticism ", then there is " a lot of extra thought and profound meaning " behind what is being said.

Often, Lefty would give a silly description of said item's " usefulness " so as to trick Ernie ( who he hoped was naive and unwary ) into buying.

Often a business owner will open multiple email addresses and then corresponding Yelp accounts and write a multitude of testimonials seemingly by many customers of said business.

Often referred as thousand-petaled lotus, it is said to be the most subtle chakra in the system, relating to pure consciousness, and it is from this chakra that all the other chakras emanate.

Often the coverage in the press can be said to reflect the views of the person in the street.

Often, jikininki are said to look like decomposing cadavers, perhaps with a few inhuman features such as sharp claws or glowing eyes.

Often, the famous line, " Live long and prosper ", is said after it.

Often it has been said that police would announce, " This is your new home boy so get used to it " when orientating detainees to the jail staff.

Often depicted as a winged deer, the peryton is said to have the head, neck, forelegs and antlers of a stag, combined with the plumage, wings and hindquarters of a large bird, although some interpretations portray the peryton as a deer in all but coloration and bird's wings.

Often a kick for touch saw the ball end up in the pool and it was said that the Australians were more adept at handling the slippery ball.