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 ).

" By the 1850s, though, this meaning of ‘ broomstick ’ had fallen out of currency and references to ‘ broomstick marriages ’ began to be interpreted literally, as though they had involved a couple actually jumping over a stick.

One dance for couples, a form of the galliard called lavolta, involved a rather intimate hold between the man and woman, with the woman being lifted into the air while the couple made a 3 / 4 turn.

In one common situation, a romantically involved couple start a conversation face-to-face, then one character will turn 180 ° and face away from the other character while conversation continues.

The couple had first met 15 years earlier, but they only became romantically involved in 2007.

The tenuous deal involved wrangling among attorneys for both Cartier and the McLeans, but finally, in 1911, the couple bought the gem for over $ 300, 000, although there are differing estimates of the sales price at $ 150, 000 and $ 180, 000.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

The Sterne Fountain was given to the city in 1913 to honor the contribution of Jacob and Ernestine Sterne, a Jewish couple who settled in Jefferson before the Civil War and became prominent citizens who managed the post office and were involved in numerous civic and cultural projects.

Summer would later be romantically involved with Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano and the couple married two years after the song's release.

They both acted as president and editor of The Ladder until 1963, and remained involved in the DOB until joining the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) as the first lesbian couple to do so.

The couple were involved in numerous fights ; during one argument, Smart bit off part of Barker's upper lip.

The two often looked as if they were involved in a romantic relationship together, and they fought like a married couple.

In a September 2008 interview with L. A. RECORD, Prescott explained that the sheer physical exertion involved in performing Mission of Burma songs meant that the band could only play together for a " couple more years at most.

The couple soon became involved in the movement to abolish slavery, with Lowell using poetry to express his antislavery views and taking a job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the editor of an abolitionist newspaper.

A brief splinter group called Kiseisha was created soon after the Nihon Ki-in was formed, but most of the players involved had returned to the Nihon Ki-in within a couple of years.

Joey's first couple of days involved a brief, mutual attraction with Monica.

The couple had been involved in the film for eighteen months.

The artist George Shaw, short listed for the 2012 Turner Prize lives in the town ; Damien Hirst, artist, has a couple of farms and several other properties in the town as well as an art " factory " on a local trading estate and is involved in several major local initiatives.

In modern Japanese culture, because monkeys are considered to indulge their libido openly and frequently ( much the same way as rabbits are thought to in some Western cultures ), a man who is preoccupied with sex might be compared to or metaphorically referred to as a monkey, as might a romantically involved couple who are exceptionally amorous.

The couple both deny being involved in the scam.

Marital therapy ( couples therapy ) may focus on helping the couple to become more involved in each other's lives or improve communication patterns.

It is the sexual orientation of the individuals involved which leads to the formation of the homosexual couple.

If contestants were involved in a messy stunt, Roxanne ( later Beverly ) would come out and take a picture of the husband / couple.

Valene and Gary became separately involved with another divorced couple, Danny and Amanda Waleska.

In 2009, her character Olivia Spencer and Jessica Leccia's character Natalia Rivera were involved in the hugely popular same sex paring, Otalia, which saw two presumably heterosexual women move from sworn enemies to a close friendship, to eventually, after a long period of dramatic angst, admitting their feelings towards each other and becoming a couple.