It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.

Southfield schools furnish an old 45-passenger bus ( the heater in which needs repair since some of the children ride a long distance and need the heat ).

Cavalry proper ( a ' Regiment of Horse ') had to ride with some agility and engage in sword-wielding melees with opposing cavalry so carrying anything long would be a dangerous encumberance.

Furthermore, frescoes and murals dealing with death had a long tradition and were widespread, e. g. the legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead: on a ride or hunt, three young gentlemen meet three cadavers ( sometimes described as their ancestors ) who warn them, Quod fuimus, estis ; quod sumus, vos eritis ( What we were, you are ; what we are, you will be ).

The aerial journey was simulated by an eighteen-minute ride on a conveyor system, carrying 552 seated spectators at a time, covering a winding path a third of a mile long through the model.

Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses ( said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) wherein Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs ; the Walking Bed, in which Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed ( see illustration ); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, wherein Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux-Arts interior turned topsy-turvy.

Vehicles for personal travel on planets with an Earthlike gravity and atmosphere include “ lightflyers ” and “ aircars ” for long distances, and “ groundcars ,” which have no wheels but ride on an antigravity cushion.

Breaking a long held tradition, President Johnson declined to ride with Grant's carriage or attend Grant's Inauguration at the Capitol, having chosen to remain at the White House signing last minute bills into law.

This system is recorded in a 10th century document known as the Burghal Hidage, which details the location and garrisoning requirements of thirty-three forts, whose positioning ensured that no one in Wessex was more than a long day's ride from a place of safety.

Breton and other surrealists traveled via a long boat ride from Patzcuaro to the town of Erongaricuaro.

On the other extreme, when playing extremely loudly a cymbal designed as a ride may serve well as a very loud, long crash.

To facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback ( or three days on foot ) along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long " California Mission Trail.

In order to facilitate overland travel, the mission settlements were situated approximately 30 miles ( 48 kilometers ) apart, so that they were separated by one day's long ride on horseback along the 600-mile ( 966-kilometer ) long el Camino Real, Spanish for " the Royal Road ", though often referred to today as the King's Highway, and also known as the California Mission Trail.

This led to long queues but dampened neither public enthusiasm for what was something of a white-knuckle ride, nor the vibrations themselves.

On his long train ride home, he came up with an idea to create another character.

The amount of time it takes to read " The Fish " coincides with the length of time a fish could live outside of water ; likewise, the duration of the long bus ride in " The Moose " coincides with the poem's long first sentence as well as the twenty-some stanzas it takes before the passengers on the bus ( and the reader ) actually encounters the moose.

On this 20 minute long ride, visitors will see tigers, elephants, and rhinos, and wild horses in their natural habitats.

This is a 400-mile long organized ride.

A medal with Charles on horseback, his long hair flaring in the wind, was struck in 1714 to commemorate the speedy ride.

A fun ride that was only allowed for adults were the go-karts on a long stretch of track.

Most of his contemporaries would play a short buzz or press roll on the back beats ( the 2nd and 4th beats ), but Dodds would play a long roll that lasted till the following beat, which created a smoother time feel that he later developed into the jazz ride pattern most commonly used ever since.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

Drill four No. 19 and four No. 28 holes in the 12'' '' long `` A '' pieces.

The female from Central America which gave birth to four was only 3 feet 11 inches long.

Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.

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.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

However, four seasons can be distinguished: the long dry season ( June – August ), the short wet season ( September – November ), the short dry season ( December – January ), and the long wet season ( February – May ).

They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).

Albert spent many days shooting deer and game, while Victoria took long walks of up to four hours daily.

The record and its key can both be up to four gigabytes long.

" It took four months to produce, eventually released in October 1918 at 45 minutes long, and was highly successful.

Ninety – four different chemical elements or types of atoms based on the number of protons are observed on earth naturally, having at least one isotope that is stable or has a very long half-life.

As a result, colour graphics can take up to four times longer to print than standard monochrome graphics, or up to 8-16 times as long at high resolution mode.

Calcium has four stable isotopes (< sup > 40 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 42 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 43 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 44 </ sup > Ca ), plus two more isotopes (< sup > 46 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 48 </ sup > Ca ) that have such long half-lives that for all practical purposes they also can be considered stable.

Mahoré, geologically the oldest of the four islands, is thirty-nine kilometers long and twenty-two kilometers wide, totaling 375 square kilometers, and its highest points are between 500 and 600 meters above sea level.

It has four airports, all with paved runways, one with runways over long, with the others having runways shorter than.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

Without a long reliever or emergency starter on the playoff roster, Hargrove started both Bartolo Colón and Charles Nagy in games four and five on only three days rest.

The concert was Montand's first public performance in four years and the film includes film clips from his long career as a singer and actor.

Although most of the instruments built before the 1730s were small ( four octaves, four feet long ), the latest instruments were built up to seven feet long with a six octave range.