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Only ten scholars are admitted at a time, and when the course of learning has expired and nine of them are released to return to their homes, the tenth scholar is detained by the devil as payment, and mounted upon an Ismeju ( dragon ) he becomes henceforward the devil's aide-de-camp, and assists him in ' making the weather ,' that is, in preparing thunderbolts.
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Only ten of the network's main roads are even partially paved, and the paved roads are plagued by dangerous potholes, missing signage, missing barriers and guardrails near roadside hazards, and no pavement markings to separate traffic moving in opposite directions.
She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).
Only the first and the second pair emerge from the cerebrum ; the remaining ten pairs emerge from the brainstem.
* Only player to post a top ten finish in at least one major championship in five different decades.
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single!
Only ten of the 32 entrants, and four of the 16 qualified teams ( Brazil, Argentina, United States and Egypt, the first African team to qualify for a World Cup finals tournament ), were from outside Europe.
Only 11 episodes are known to survivethe pilot and ten kinescope recordings, all of which are archived at the Paley Center for Media.
Only ten years after the war ended, after some experience of journalism, did he feel ready to branch out into prose.
He had worked on at least ten regular comic strips before Rarebit Fiend, some of which had dream-related titles such as Daydreams and It Was Only a Dream.
Only when a full ten marks have been counted would there be an alignment because the tenth mark would be ten tenths, that is a whole main scale unit, short and will therefore align with the ninth mark on the main scale.
Only Caltech, at number one, and Harvey Mudd, in second, outranked Swarthmore, with Reed, MIT, Carleton, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, and Grinnell rounding out the top ten, respectively.
Only about ten to twenty percent of the organism ’ s energy is generally passed to the next organism.
Only ten days into the life of the government, Sir James Dickson died suddenly ; he was replaced on 17 January as Minister for Defence by John Forrest, and James Drake was brought into the ministry as Postmaster-General on 5 February.
Only one channel pack with eight to ten main national radio and TV channels ( Channel One, Rossiya 1 / 2 / K / 24, NTV, Radio Mayak, Radio Rossii etc.
Only those who toil six long days out of the seven, and all the year round, save for one brief glorious fortnight or ten days in the summer time, know the exquisite sensations of the First Holiday Morning.
Only and scholars
Only in the 16th century was recognition as ecumenical granted by Catholic scholars to the Councils of the Lateran, of Lyon and those that followed.
Only later did non-mercantilist scholars integrate these " diverse " ideas into what they called mercantilism.
Only one instance of pre-Columbian European contact the Norse settlement at L ' Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada c. 1000 AD is regarded by scholars as demonstrated.
Only a few fragments of these works have survived intact, but from what remains scholars have noted that there is a large amount of overlap with the Egyptian herbals.
Only in philosophy, Islamic scholars were relatively restricted from putting forth unorthodox ideas.
Only recently, some of these other English light operas have begun to be explored by scholars and to receive performances and recordings.
Only few books survived because the Persian scholars were left with no choice but to quickly translated them into Arabic in order to save them.
Only Eusebius ' History, in a Latin translation by Rufinus competed with it as the official version of church history in the West, until original sources began to be rediscovered, edited and printed by humanist scholars in the 15th century.
Only very few scholars, among them G. Tsetskhladze, still expressed such opinion still in late nineties.
Only four language scholars sat in the 1989 commission, while the majority of the commission was made up of military officials and civil servants with no particular knowledge of linguistics.
Only the questions survive, however, the way that the questions are phrased, as well as Geoffroi's actions in his lifetime, allow scholars to reach further conclusions about Geoffroi's conception of chivalry and war.
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Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.
Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.
Only when the newest Mr. America or Mr. Universe discovers them and puts them into practice are we reacquainted with them and once again see how effective they really are.
Only the vain and incurably sentimental among us will lose sleep simply because foreign peoples are not as impressed by our strength as they ought to be.
Only a dozen or so schools send as many as six students, and there are seldom more than fifteen men in any single delegation.
Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.
Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right.
Only high frequency sounds like mating calls are heard in this way but low frequency noises can be detected through another mechanism.
Only a limited number of actinium compounds are known including AcF < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcCl < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcBr < sub > 3 </ sub >, AcOF, AcOCl, AcOBr, Ac < sub > 2 </ sub > S < sub > 3 </ sub >, Ac < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub > and AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >.
11 ( 2008 ) Only Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri's Shirak Airport are in use for commercial aviation.
Only the product is required to calculate planetary positions for an ephemeris, which explains why ephemerides are calculated in astronomical units and not in SI units.
Only 28 of the 49 parties to the agreements have the right to participate in decision-making at these meetings, though the other 21 are still allowed to attend.
Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.
Only the Jarawa and Sentinelese still maintain a steadfast independence and refuse most attempts at contact ; their numbers are uncertain but estimated to be in the low hundreds.
Only then in fact was payment for assembly attendance, the central event of democracy ( Similarly for the period before the Persian wars, but for the very early democracy the sources are very meagre and it can be thought of as being in an embryonic state ).
Only pitifully small pieces of land are gained, about the size of a football field, which are often lost again later.
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