although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.

wept day and night for the sins and blindness of the world had a long walk through the trees and woods by his house, where he constantly walked morning and evening, and even in the depths of the night, alone by himself, for contemplation and the enjoyment of the dispensation of light.

We all seek the same thing through different ways -- an end to this long night of two thousand years of darkness and unspeakable abuses which will continue to plague us until the Star of David flies over Zion ''.

The consummation should come at the next stopping place when they have a long private time ( day or night ) for that purpose.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Unlike its relatives, the aardwolf does not hunt large animals ; instead it eats insects, mainly termites-one aardwolf can eat about 200, 000 termites during a single night by using its long, sticky tongue to capture them.

By night, an aardwolf can consume up to 200, 000 harvester termites using its sticky, long tongue.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

With advances in aircraft design and equipment, they were joined by larger multi-engined biplane aircraft on both sides for long range strategic bombing especially by night.

The cabal was created in an effort to facilitate reliable propagation of new Usenet posts: While in the 1970s and 1980s many news servers only operated during night time to save on the cost of long distance communication, servers of the backbone cabal were available 24 hours a day.

They described large trucks passing through towns at night carrying very long canvas-covered cylindrical objects that could not make turns through towns without backing up and maneuvering.

Still in shock .. had bad dreams all night long.

Angry at Madero's commutation of Villa's sentence, Huerta, after a long night of drinking, mused about reaching an agreement with Orozco and together deposing Madero as president.

It now has a great variety of values, including in enough, in loan words like spaghetti, and as an indicator of a letter's " long " pronunciation in words like eight and night.

From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett's bed ( with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark ).

However, in the 21st century, many couples will not leave until 1 – 3 days after the ceremony and reception in order to tie up loose ends with the reception venue and / or simply enjoy the reception to its fullest and have a relaxing night afterwards to recover, before undertaking a long journey.

The Baal Shem Tov claimed in his writings that he invented Hasidism while taking long walks alone in the forest at night where he received revelations about the Almighty God of Israel.

The F < sub > 2 </ sub > layer remains by day and night responsible for most skywave propagation of radio waves, facilitating high frequency ( HF, or shortwave ) radio communications over long distances.

Remarkably steady during daytime hours but becoming a breeze at night, the shammal may blow for as long as nine days out of ten and then repeat the process.

They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

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

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

He came within an ace of being riddled with bullets during his long fight with the Doolin gang which terrorized Oklahoma in the 1890's.

The drummer flogged the gourd with frantic intensity as the dancers began the calinda, a sensual gyration which had long been a favorite of voodoo practitioners and their disciples in the Louisiana slave compounds.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Fuzzy caterpillars, snails with their sensitive horns, struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco, spit ''.

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.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

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.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

He improved Nicolas Chuquet's long scale system by adding names for intermediate numbers (" milliards " instead of " thousand million ", etc.

Many of Honegger's works were championed by his long time friend Georges Tzipine, who conducted the premiere recordings of some of them ( Cris du Monde oratorio, Nicolas de Flüe ).

The Kingdom of Prussia began with a line 750 kilometres long between Berlin and Coblenz in 1833, and in Russia, Tsar Nicolas I inaugurated the line between Moscow and Warsaw ( 1200 km ) in 1833 ; this needed 220 stations manned by 1320 operators.

* A long article about Nicolas Bourbaki, from PlanetMath

He was one of the first to adopt the philosophy of René Descartes, though with certain orthodox reservations ; and between 1683 and 1685 he had a long battle with Nicolas Malebranche on the relation of theology to metaphysics.

Paris has long trained the French and international political and economic elite: specifically the three immediate past French presidents ( Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand ), thirteen past or present French prime ministers, twelve past or present foreign heads of state or government, and a former United Nations Secretary-General.

At the final European Council meeting on the treaty in Lisbon, on 19 November 2007, French President Nicolas Sarkozy set off public speculation on candidates by naming Tony Blair, Felipe González and Jean-Claude Juncker, and praising the three as worthy candidates with Blair in particular being a long time front runner for the post.

Benjamin Franklin Gates ( Nicolas Cage ) is a historian and amateur cryptologist, and the youngest descendant of a long line of treasure hunters.

The King greatly enjoyed watching horse races, but wanted to know exactly how long each race lasted, so Nicolas Rieussec was hired to invent a contraption that would do the job.

Sharp shared this remarkable domicile with some remarkable people, including Eric Clapton ( who moved in not long after Sharp did ), Germaine Greer, filmmaker Philippe Mora, artist Tim Whidborne, prominent London " identity " David Litvinoff ( later an adviser on the production of Nicolas Roeg's Performance ), writer Anthony Haden-Guest ( author of The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night ) and Martin's friend Robert Whitaker, photographer of choice for many leading rock groups on the scene, including The Beatles.

Its invention is attributed to Nicolas Appert in 1831, but the principle was known long before and called portable soup.

The foreign adventure novel would start to face competition from domestic French production in the second half of the century in the long works of authors Béroalde de Verville and Nicolas de Montreux.