The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

The air, he said, was just right ; ;

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

He said that Mr. Wright was not in, and so could not be arrested on something called a peace warrant that Miriam was waving in the air.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

Recently the secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation was interviewed on the air.

She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.

The music drove them off, or away, and he was free to walk on air in a very few moments, humming and jiving within, beating the rhythm within.

The air was cooler here, and the lacy pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the grass, an effect which he found pleasant.

The boundless blue air was stretched over the zenith like the skin of a drum.

There was the smell of the coast, like a primeval memory, composed of equal parts salt water, clams, seaweed and northern air.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

There was the suggestion of ice water, and -- in spite of the protest `` We're not really thirsty '' -- Linda Kay, to escape the stuffy air and the smothering soft voices, hurried to the kitchen.

The doctor, he noticed, was attempting a transverse movement towards the stairs, but before the movement could be completed a distinct and audible cluck ruffled the air in the hollow of the stair-well.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

When air travel was in its infancy, the sky was considered big enough and high enough for all.

Scheduled airlines include the new Olympic Air, Aegean Airlines and Athens Airways, with chartered flights from other airlines during the summer, and transportation to and from the air terminal is through buses, taxis, hotel car-pickups and rental cars.

Nor were they confined to their father's house and prevented from exercising or getting fresh air as in Athens, but exercised and even competed in sports.

Many are in the open air, such as the Agora of Athens and the Roman Forum.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

As he attempted to pierce the youth's breast, Ceres turned the king into a lynx, then ordered the youth, of Athens, the city of Mopsopus, to drive the sacred team back through the air.

In 1909-1910, he flew in air shows all over Europe ( Monaco, Douai, Ostende, Francfort, Berlin, Antwerp, Warsaw, Athens, St. Job-in -' t Goor, Johannisthal, Montdorf, Budapest, Düsseldorf and Stockel ) and founded the Aviator company in order to produce the Aviatik biplanes under a Farman licence.

NoMo1 was a German army link between Berlin and Athens, and NoMo2 a temporary air force link between Berlin and Königsberg.

By early 1990, numerous other stations also appeared on the air, including New Channel ( no relation to Nea Tileorasi ) with movies, music videos and talk shows, Channel Seven-X ( with avant-garde programming including foreign films, intellectual programming and a simulcast of French music network MCM ), Jeronimo Groovy TV ( initially a popular music video station that broadcast in Athens, amidst serious interference from other stations ), TeleCity ( a right-wing political television station with news and talk shows ), 902 TV ( owned by the Communist Party of Greece ), Kanali 29 ( a television station with political and cultural programs and a cult following ), and a plethora of other broadcasters, which filled every available VHF and UHF frequency, often broadcasting only for several weeks or months, or with very little programming of note.

Finally, in 2004, Aerosvit Airlines became The official air carrier of the National Olympic team of Ukraine for the XXVIII Olympic Summer Games held in 2004 in Athens.

They predict the effect of the loss will only begin to be felt in the coming years ; the air may become a little stale and the already known problems of air pollution and smog in Athens may reappear and intensify.

Athens had some of the worst traffic congestion and air pollution in the world at that time.

This posed a new threat to the ancient monuments of Athens, as traffic vibration weakened foundations and air pollution corroded marble.

Instead, HSN arranged for WNGM-TV in Athens ( channel 34, now WUVG-TV ) to air HSN programming 24 hours a day.

It operated scheduled services from Glasgow International Airport, and other UK airports, to the Mediterranean and Athens using the air operator's certificate of Greece Airways, a Greek registered company and licensed by the Greek Civil Aviation Authority.

** Order 2004-3-25 ( March 23, 2004 ): selecting Air Midwest, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide essential air service ( EAS ) at Athens, Georgia, for a two-year period at an annual subsidy rate of $ 392, 108, and setting final rates for Air Midwest hold-in service at the community retroactive to June 14, 2003, and ending with the beginning of the two-year rate term.

** Order 2006-3-19 ( March 22, 2006 ): re-selecting Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidy of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide essential air service ( EAS ) at Athens, Georgia, for the two-year period beginning June 1, 2006.

** Order 2007-7-21 ( July 26, 2007 ): selecting Gulfstream International Airlines, Inc. to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at DuBois and Franklin / Oil City, Pennsylvania, Greenbrier / White Sulphur Springs / Lewisburg, West Virginia, and Athens, Georgia, at a total annual subsidy rate of $ 4, 077, 792 ($ 1, 159, 229 for DuBois, $ 763, 741 for Franklin / Oil City, $ 1, 329, 477 for Greenbrier / White Sulphur Springs / Lewisburg, and $ 825, 345 for Athens ) for the two-year period beginning when Gulfstream inaugurates service through the end of the 24th month thereafter.

d / b / a Georgia Skies, to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Athens and Macon, with 9-seat Cessna Grand Caravan C 208B turboprop aircraft, for the two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates full EAS at both communities, at an annual subsidy of $ 2, 437, 692.

d / b / a Georgia Skies, to continue providing subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Athens, Georgia, for the two-year period beginning October 1, 2010, at the annual subsidy rate of $ 1, 051, 386 ; and requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing EAS at Macon, Georgia, with or without subsidy, for a new two-year period.

d / b / a Georgia Skies, to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Athens and Macon, with 9-seat Cessna Grand Caravan C 208B turboprop aircraft, for the two-year period beginning when the carrier inaugurates full EAS at both communities, at an annual subsidy of $ 2, 437, 692.

I had to take things calmly, and to tell myself that it ... is only this horrible malaria that will pass with a change of air ..." George, in fact, had acute bronchitis and was sent back to Athens where he could be examined by the Imperial doctors.

The men's 10 metre air pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held on August 14 at the Markópoulo Olympic Shooting Centre near Athens, Greece.