Around the billiard tables were always at least a couple of dozen beribboned generals.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

There were also a couple in Canada, and several in England.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

I wouldn't have wasted time puzzling over this couple were it not for my fear that all the other inhabitants of Catatonia were equally unreal.

the pets were a couple of Siamese cats.

A weekly newspaper reported a local romance: `` and the couple were married last Saturday, thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays ''.

I'm sure they were in the garage up until a couple of days ago.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

Honor attendants for the couple were Miss Sandra Branum and Warren V. McRoberts.

A couple of the girls were laughing rather shrilly and I realized they were drinking.

Mr. Willis bought Zenith Plastic Products, a skeleton corporation of sorts which had undergone many vicissitudes and whose principal assets were a couple of electronics plants on Long Island engaged in working out government contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive position.

Abby May applied as his teaching assistant ; instead, the couple were engaged, without consent of the family.

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

The couple were childless.

The couple were divorced in 1943.

William of Malmesbury's account attacks Sybilla, but the evidence argues that Alexander and Sybilla were a devoted but childless couple and Sybilla was of noteworthy piety.

The couple were married for 50 years and had five children: Martha ( 1828 ), Charles ( 1830 ), Mary ( 1832 ), Robert ( 1834 ), and Andrew Jr. ( 1852 ).

The young couple were betrothed for about five months before the marriage itself commenced.

Over the next couple seasons, The Boston Red Stockings dominated the league and hoarded many of the game's best players, even those who were under contract with other teams.

The couple had refused to comment on the nature of their relationship, and it was not known whether they were married or not.

Contra dances were fashionable in the United States until the early to mid-19th century, when they were supplanted in popularity by square dances ( such as the quadrille and lancers ) and couple dances ( such as the waltz and polka ).

The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Guiler pursued his banking career and Nin began to pursue her interest in writing ; in her diaries she also mentions having trained as a flamenco dancer in Paris in the mid-to-late 1920s.

The couple also made significant donations to the Royal Military College of Canada.

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, only the active couple — the " 1st couple "-- initiated the action, other couples supporting their movements and joining in as needed, until they also took their turn as leading couples.

Gifts were often exchanged, especially rings: a gold coin broken in half between the couple was also common.

Ideally the couple were also supposed to refrain from intercourse until then.

A honeymoon can also be the first moments a newly-wed couple spend together, or the first holiday they spend together to celebrate their marriage.

For example: A fertile couple may have intercourse while using contraception to experience sexual pleasure ( recreational ) and also as a means of emotional intimacy ( relational ), thus deepening their bonding, making their relationship more stable and more capable of sustaining children in the future ( deferred reproductive ).

His son, Hermann Christian Wittgenstein — who took the middle name " Christian " to distance himself from his Jewish background — married Fanny Figdor, also Jewish, who converted to Protestantism just before they married, and the couple founded a successful business trading in wool in Leipzig.

These illegally made Croatian weapons " also ended up in the Dutch criminal world: between 1998 and 2000, a couple dozen ‘ Croatian UZIs ’ were seized ".

A papal dispensation was also necessary for the marriage to take place, as the couple was closely related, and was issued by Pope Gregory XII on 6 December 1374.

Tremblay worked also on a television series entitled Le Cœur découvert ( The Heart Laid Bare ), about the lives of a gay couple in Quebec, for the French-language TV network Radio-Canada.

This enabled the young women to have assistance for childbirth and rearing ; it also protected her in case of conflicts between the couple.

A generation ago, some neurologists would have also spent a couple of years working in psychiatric units and obtain a Diploma in Psychological Medicine.

The other pub is the Plume of Feathers ( the Railway-" The Devils Elbow "-has closed as a pub recently ) and there are also a couple of cafes, one of which is situated in what used to be the town's police station.

In ‘ A Modern Herbal ’, Mrs Grieves says “ A rosemary branch, richly gilded and tied with silken ribands of all colours, was also presented to wedding guests, as a symbol of love and loyalty .” If a young person would tap another with a rosemary sprig and if the sprig contained an open flower, it was said that the couple would fall in love.

Legend also states that the couple moved to Worms, Germany while Rashi's mother was expecting.

They also involve a central romantic story, usually in which the couple seem mismatched and even hostile to each other at first, but eventually overcome their differences in an amusing or entertaining way that leads to romance.

Screwball comedies also tend to contain ridiculous, farcical situations, such as in Bringing Up Baby, in which a couple must take care of a pet leopard during much of the film.

Relay races are also held in short track and inline competitions, but here, exchanges may take place at any time during the race, though exchanges may be banned during the last couple of laps.

For a brief while it was also implied that Skuld had a crush on Keiichi ; the second special episode of the first TV series ( where she's grown up for a day ) explored this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.

If the couple has divorced fewer than three times ( meaning it is not a final divorce ) the wife also receives spousal support for three menstrual cycles after the divorce, until it can be determined whether she is pregnant.