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Only the heavy bones of the oxen kept them anchored.
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The new version of the Misfits launched by Jerry Only and Doyle in the 1990s had a style that was much more heavy metal than punk, an outgrowth of the brothers ' experience with their short-lived Christian metal act Kryst the Conqueror.
Only the third tallest on his team, but called " easily the No. 1 player in college basketball today ", " the best amateur basketball player in the United States ", and " The White Oscar Robertson ", he scored 41 points in a 80 – 78 loss to Michigan, then led Princeton to the Final Four after defeating heavy favorite Providence by 40 points.
Only one car was made, and its only race was the 1968 1000 km event at Spa, where it retired with electrical problems in heavy rain.
Only with the destruction of the Tirpitz in 1944 did the Home Fleet assume a lower priority, and most of its heavy units were withdrawn to be sent to the Far East.
Only the heavy granite ramparts, strong teak gateways and deep foundations and ruins of the buildings within the fort survived.
Only at the siege of Clonmel did Cromwell suffer significant casualties ( although disease also took a very heavy toll on his men ).
Only 669 were built before production of all KdF models was halted in 1945 because of heavy damage to the factory by Allied air raids.
Only six out of nine of the USS Houstons 8-inch ( 203-millimeter ) heavy guns were operational because her aft gun turret had been knocked out in an earlier Japanese air raid.
Only in Central America and the Chocó region of Colombia did tropical rainforests remain substantially intact – probably due to the extraordinarily heavy rainfall of these regions.
Only Sepoy Ali Haidar and the two other men of his section managed to get across under heavy machine-gun fire.
Only the 6th Cavalry Division managed to break through the lines of the Polish 13th Infantry Division, but was repulsed the following day ( May 31, 1920 ) and, after three days of heavy fighting, forced to retreat to its initial positions near Human.
Only a small number of troops together with Romer were able to break through to Lviv after suffering heavy losses.
Only one name tablet, located on the downtown platform between the last two staircases at the northern end, remained uncovered and survived intact until a few years into the 21st century when a serious water leak after very heavy rainfall caused individual tiles to separate from the wall and fall off.
Only appearing in Episode 3 of MS IGLOO 2: Gravity Front, the RTX-440 is a prototype designed for rapid penetration attack and laying down heavy suppressive barrages.
Only and bones
Only one species is known from specimens taken while the bird was still extant ; the other remains only known from subfossil bones and apparently one early traveller's description.
Only dog and pig bones show morphological signs of domestication ( size reduction ), sheep, goat and cattle bones are in the size range of the wild species ( Mouflon, bezoar goat and wild cattle, respectively ).
Only four mounted specimens remain, in museums in Vienna, Stockholm, Paris, and Leiden, along with some bones and horns elsewhere.
Only six bones from the lower skeleton have been found, and excavations in the 1980s offered no leads for new finds.
Only and kept
Only one leaf of the manuscript survived and it is now kept in the National and University Library of Iceland.
Only Hera kept apart, perhaps to kidnap Eileithyia or Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.
Only new potatoes can be refrigerated, and should be kept so, where they have a shelf life of 1 week.
Only the United Kingdom ( with its extensive overseas empire ) kept the needle telegraph of Cooke and Wheatstone.
Only one song, titled " Other Father Song ", was kept for the film with Linnell singing as the titular " Other Father ".
Only Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas and the XIV corps kept the Army of the Cumberland from complete defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Only Canadian federal ministers of the Crown may advise the sovereign on all matters of the Canadian state, of which the sovereign, when not in Canada, is kept abreast by weekly communications with the federal viceroy.
" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".
Following the Savoyards ' tradition (" Only one Savoy reigns at a time "), he kept apart from active politics until he was finally named Lieutenant General of the Realm.
Four James Bond movies, For Your Eyes Only ; Octopussy ; A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights amongst several other very large productions, such as Tim Burton's Batman, kept the studio busy during the decade.
Only the Trojans had watchfires ; they, therefore, were awake and kept each other to their duty as sentinels ; but the allies who have come from other places were asleep and left it to the Trojans to keep guard.
Only his regard for Ruhnken and for Dutch freedom ( in his own words Ruhnkeni et Batavae libertatis cogitatio ) kept him in Holland.
Only small numbers of Sonderkommando were kept alive to assist arriving transports, for clearing away bodies, or for sorting property and valuables from dead victims.
Only at the end of the interrogation did they discover he had a gunshot wound in the left thigh, which he kept secret.
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