Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

Only two people in the state of Illinois knew that I was entering Hanover State Hospital under an assumed name, or why.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

Only then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

Only 11 senators were on the floor and there was no record vote.

Only at this moment -- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty's bed -- she found herself examining how others might regard her.

Only, this old man's connivance was even less to her taste than Selma Cotter's open censure.

Only Cromwell, the giant boatswain, was mild-mannered and respectful.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

Only one year of deficit was recorded, but the price paid was retrenchments and lean public spending.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

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 later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.

Only several years after its liberation ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became a regional military power and was involved in several major wars – Serbo-Bulgarian War ( 1885 ), First Balkan War ( 1912 – 13 ), Second Balkan War ( 1913 ), First World War ( 1915 – 1918 ) and Second World War ( 1941 – 1944 ), during which the Army gained significant combat experience.

Only then was it sent out to the Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ), the intelligence chiefs in the relevant ministries, and later on to high-level commanders in the field.

Only one was ever built because Mrs. Beech did not like the aircraft.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Myers later ported the character to television for the Canadian sketch comedy show It's Only Rock & Roll and the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.

Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

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 ordained priests can administer it, and " any priest may carry the holy oil with him, so that in a case of necessity he can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

Only a proper, artist-grade acrylic gesso should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic ( however acrylic paint can be applied to raw canvas if so desired without any negative effect or chemical reaction as would be the case with oils ).

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

Only a proportion of purebred heifers are needed to provide replacement cows, so often some of the cows in dairy herds are put to a beef bull to produce crossbred calves suitable for rearing as beef.

A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that the inscription read " The Only Institute of Technology.

" He said, " we recognize the imperative need for this development ... the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist ... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Only one notation name may be specified in the value of ENTITY attributes ( there's no support in SGML, XML 1. 0 or XML 1. 1 for multiple notation names in the same declared external ENTITY, so separate attributes will be needed ).

Only a very small number of copies could be made at a time, so circulation was extremely limited.

Only atoms with partially filled shells ( i. e., unpaired spins ) can have a net magnetic moment, so ferromagnetism only occurs in materials with partially filled shells.

Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour.

Only after 1800 did the supply increase sufficiently so that, on the insistence of Admiral Lord St Vincent, it began to be issued generally.

Only Jainas have been absolutely unwilling to allow such ideas to penetrate their community, despite the fact that there must have been tremendous amount of social pressure on them to do so.

Only those who make effort, really attain it, but nonetheless, each soul is capable on its own to do so by gradually reducing its karma.

Only Hezbollah retained its weapons, and was supported by Lebanon's parliament in doing so, because it officially for defending Lebanon against the Israeli occupation.

Only a limited number of planes are able to make the transatlantic journey, so when one lands they must prepare it for the return trip as quickly as possible.

Only after we have been integrated within the environment so as to perceive objects as such can we turn our attention toward particular objects within the landscape so as to define them more clearly.

Brando made the following comment about his sex life in an interview with Gary Carey, for his 1976 biography The Only Contender, " Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news.

Only one of this first series ( and very few of the following three in which he did not appear ) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or discarded as no longer usable, so there is almost no record of his work as a radio " Goon ".