The area was deserted.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.

Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.

The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.

As can be seen from Figure 2, an extensive area was covered by this aerosol.

As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.

It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

The myocardium of the posterior base of the left ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area.

The mucosa of the stomach was atrophic and irregularly blackened over a 14 cm. area.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.

Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open area due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, as well as land.

This area was largely isolated until the opening of the port of Kampong Saom ( formerly called Sihanoukville ) and the construction of a road and railroad connecting Kampong Saom, Kampot, Takev, and Phnom Penh in the 1960s.

For hundreds of years this isolated population consisting now of 4. 400 inhabitants, has claimed to be the direct descendant of the Cimbri retreating in this area after the Roman aftermath.

The film is a story of five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a wooded area.

The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ) as late as the 8th century, and Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that it was still spoken in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea in the early 9th century ( see Crimean Gothic ).

The difficult life on these isolated islands along with unreliable fresh water supplies may have led to the dereliction or extinction of the settlements, much the same as other islands in the area ( such as Kiritimati and Pitcairn ) were abandoned.

In geography, an oasis ( plural: oases ) or cienega ( Southwestern United States ) is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source.

Most of the overseas possessions were seized by the United Kingdom and by 1850 Oman was an isolated and poor area of the world.

He travels by car to an isolated sand dunes area in the state of Oregon to meditate and has an epiphany.

The Colombian authorities had received satellite footage, probably supplied by the CIA, of the men with FARC-EP in an isolated jungle area, where they are thought to have spent the last five weeks.

The area is generally barren, with a highly eroded surface of ancient river gorges and isolated buttes.

The group traveled through Kenya and Uganda to the slopes of Mount Elgon, where Jung hoped to increase his understanding of " primitive psychology " through conversations with the culturally isolated residents of that area.

In the II Corps area the disappointment of 10 August was repeated, with the infantry managing to advance, being isolated by German artillery and then ( except in the 25th Division area near Westhoek ) forced back to their start line by German infantry counter-attacks.

It was a rural, heavily forested part of the state, and Heston lived an isolated yet idyllic existence spending much time hunting and fishing in the backwoods of the area.

The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bushmills produces whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area.

All this made possible the emergence of a sparsely populated and ill-organized area that isolated the Asturian kingdom from the Moorish assaults and allowed its progressive strengthening.

To protect Rynn from being returned to her mother's custody after his death, he moved them to an isolated area and made plans to allow Rynn to live alone.

Due to its original usage in scattered isolated regions where communication is limited to the local area, the Hakka language has developed numerous variants or dialects, spoken in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces, including Hainan island, Singapore and Taiwan.

They had traveled beyond the boundaries of the United States seeking an isolated area to practice their religion, far away from the violence and the persecution they experienced in the East.

This is a protected and isolated area, having been kept closed by the Soviet Union since 1944.

Following the penetrations inland, confused hard-fought individual actions pushed the foothold out barely a mile and a half ( 2. 5 km ) deep in the Colleville area to the east, less than that west of St. Laurent, and an isolated penetration in the Vierville area.