We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.

those of 1788 were going to prove decisive, though many of their details are obscure.

Your ear takes you into the ensemble, and you may well become aware of instrumental details which previously were apparent only in the score.

raised details of designs were colored in shades of yellow-green, blue-green, brown and pink.

Since the details of the elections were settled the change of government had no direct effect on the technical aspects of the elections, and may have been more important as an indication of royal displeasure with the U.N.F.P.

Sometimes she displays amazing eidetic imagery and seems to see all details in perspective, as if the scene were actually there.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

Besides, agreements `` in principle '', with the petty details to be thrashed out later, were commonplace in diplomatic history.

Observing logs typically record details about which objects were observed and when, as well as describing the details that were seen.

Ultimately, the abstract parallels between algebraic systems were seen to be more important than the details and modern algebra was born.

Each were influenced by themselves and design details from other cultures as far away as contemporary Mexico.

Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.

This announcement followed a five-year standardization process in which fifteen competing designs were presented and evaluated, before the Rijndael cipher was selected as the most suitable ( see Advanced Encryption Standard process for more details ).

J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly similarly were not aware of the details of Babbage's Analytical Engine work prior to the completion of their design for the first electronic general-purpose computer, the ENIAC.

For many years, the events described in " The Curse of Akkad " were thought, like the details of Sargon's birth, to be purely fictional.

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

Firm details of specific rites are sparse, as members were sworn under the penalty of death not to reveal anything about the Mysteries to non-initiates.

In spite of its academic nature, the copious details to be found in the treatise rendered it of the highest value to the army organizers of the 16th century, who were engaged in fashioning a regular military system out of the semi-feudal systems of previous generations.

In that engagement at least 3 other Serbian aircraft were shot down by USAF F-16C fighters using AIM-9 missiles ( see Banja Luka incident for more details ).

According to accounts which vary in some of the details, in 340 BC the Byzantines and their allies the Athenians were under siege by the troops of Philip of Macedon.

BCS derived several important theoretical predictions that are independent of the details of the interaction, since the quantitative predictions mentioned below hold for any sufficiently weak attraction between the electrons and this last condition is fulfilled for many low temperature superconductors-the so-called weak-coupling case.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

Although details of their physiology were not mentioned on screen, the space slug, ( a giant worm-like creature that lived on asteroids in the vacuum of space ), and the Mynock, ( pesky bat-like vermin that would attach to spaceship hulls and chew through power conduits to feed off the raw energy ), are said to be silicon-based organisms in Star Wars Expanded Universe sources.

However, as mentioned in the introduction, biographical details such as these should be regarded with scepticism.

To justify this viewpoint, Jews point to the text of the Torah, where many words are left undefined, and many procedures mentioned without explanation or instructions ; this, they argue, means that the reader is assumed to be familiar with the details from other, i. e., oral, sources.

Many of the details given above ( the Air Force career, the Ph. D .) were mentioned in letters " Tiptree " wrote, and also appeared in official author biographies.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

Joseph is referenced in apocryphal and non-canonical accounts such as the Acts of Pilate, a text often appended to the medieval Gospel of Nicodemus and The Narrative of Joseph, and mentioned in the works of early church historians such as Irenaeus ( 125 – 189 ), Hippolytus ( 170 – 236 ), Tertullian ( 155 – 222 ) and Eusebius ( 260 – 340 ), who added details not found in the canonical accounts.

Both novelists encourage re-reading, because details that look insignificant foreshadow important events or characters much later in the story-line – for example Sirius Black is briefly mentioned near the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and then becomes a major character in the third to fifth books.

Sūra LIII, 1-20 and the end of the sūra are not a unity, as is claimed by the story ; XXII, 52, is later than LIII, 21-7, and is almost certainly Medinan ( see Bell, Trans., 316, 322 ); and several details of the story-the mosque, the sajda, and others not mentioned in the short summary above-do not belong to a

Human members in the Culture setting vary in size, colour and shape as in reality, and with possibly even further natural differences: in the novella The State of the Art, it is mentioned that a character " looks like a Yeti ", and that there is variance among the Culture in minor details such as the number of toes or of joints on each finger.

Subsequently, various editions of Navy regulations mentioned the act of putting a ship in commission, but details of a commissioning ceremony were not prescribed.

What is also mentioned is the casting details.

These details are only mentioned in Heimskringla.

Although details of the ryūha were omitted, the publication states, " even though they are not mentioned in this particular periodical, there are several schools that are well-known for being ‘ effective arts ’ ( jitsuryoku ha ).

Julian Rushton suggests that any solution must satisfy five criteria, three of which stemming from the above quotations: a " dark saying " must be involved ; the theme " is not played "; the theme should be " well known ", as Elgar stated multiple times ; Dora Penny ( to whom Elgar also wrote the Dorabella Cipher ) should have been, " of all people ," the one to solve the Enigma ; and finally, the details mentioned in the notes accompanying the pianola rolls may be part of the solution.

Bethlehem was first mentioned in official records dating back to 1730, though details of its formation are uncertain.

It had been previously known as East Fenwick Township, which was mentioned on September 3, 1679, though the details of its incorporation are unknown.

Other authors have noted that the silence of Paul is no indication, given the Pauline Epistles were not intended as chronologies and include very few details of the life of Jesus in general, and that even the Last Supper was only mentioned by Paul in response to problems in Corinth.

All the possible details in this respect must be expressly mentioned.

The details of the child's death remain vague ; the topic is mentioned only briefly in a handful of existing letters, written years later to express sympathy and understanding to close friends who were also dealing with the loss of a child.

The Gospel of Peter is more detailed in its account of the events after the Crucifixion than any of the canonical gospels, and it varies from the canonical accounts in numerous details: Herod gives the order for the execution, not Pilate, who is exonerated ; Joseph ( of Arimathea, which place is not mentioned ) has been acquainted with Pilate ; in the darkness that accompanied the crucifixion, " many went about with lamps, supposing that it was night, and fell down ".

Particularly, Markus and Kitayama ( 1991 ) mentioned how ( individualistic ) Westerners tend to see themselves as independent agents and therefore prone themselves to individual objects rather than contextual details.

Humbaba is mentioned in Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life, with the added details that the god has a serpent tail and a " serpent willy ":

Because Starr regularly leaked tidbits to press about the lurid, lengthy sexual details that were mentioned in his report, he was criticized for using the scandal as a political maneuver and was charged for violating legal ethics by presenting information irrelevant to an investigation as evidence of legal wrongdoing.