A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

The sharp ray was absorbed by a cloud, then reflected to the earth in a softer, diffused radiance.

The bombproof was a low-ceilinged structure of heavy timbers covered with earth.

One of the most interesting findings was the extreme sensitivity of plasma arylesterases to rare earth ions.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

Then we drove on, until there was no more road and we traversed dry rice fields, bouncing across their squat earth walls.

What on earth was in Mae's mind, that she wanted him up there spying on what the cops were doing??

It was nine o'clock in the morning: the hour which, like a spade turning clods of earth, exposed to the day a myriad of busy creatures that had lain dormant in the quiet night.

The only way Fiedler could get back to earth alive was to fly the pulse jet missile and land it on the airstrip.

For ' God had not rained ', says the Scripture, before man was made, and there was no man to till the earth.

From this earth, then, while it was still virgin God took dust and fashioned the man, the beginning of humanity ''.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.

The air was full of sounds too but placid ones, a terrestrial humming as much out of the earth as out of the blue sky.

I had turned at the corner of the field and I had to look back to raise the plow and then to drop it again into the earth, and I was thinking of the boy and the water anyway, and when I looked again down the furrow, the snake was there.

The tractor was heavily loaded with the weight of the plow turning the earth, and the tractor stopped instantly.

The females like to burrow in the short turf of well-kept lawns, where their little mounds of earth often appear by the hundreds.

Even a nuclear holocaust is a little less frightful to contemplate than a race of dehumanised humans occupying the earth until doomsday ''.

Of the current total, only about 50 percent of the roads and highways were covered with asphalt and were in good condition ; about 50 percent of the roads were made of crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth ; and the remaining approximately 30 percent were unimproved earth or were little more than tracks.

Borgia was originally buried in a marble tomb beneath the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Viana with an inscription " Here lies in little earth one who was feared by all, who held peace and war in his hand.

: Strife whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister and companion of murderous Ares, she who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.

As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.

In 55 BC the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that there was an island called Hyperborea ( which means " far to the north ") where a round temple stood from which the moon appeared only a little distance above the earth every 19 years.

Europe ), so naturally it feels familiar, even if a little glorified by enchantment of distance in time., Letters pg, 239 ",</ ref > This was not always clear, however, as a few of his early letters described that while his stories take place on earth, elements of the stories as a kind of "... secondary or sub-creational reality " or " Secondary belief " in replies to letters, or " at a different stage of imagination ...".

Today, there is little evidence of these old excavations other than weathered pits and earth piles.

The remaining roads were little more than fair-weather earth and sand tracks.

Then, when We decreed ( Solomon's ) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept ( slowly ) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the Jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty ( of their Task ).

Given how little we can know for sure, our focus should be on this earth and life ; beauty, justice, love.

2, page 176a ), ` Sifra diTzni ` uta is five chapters which are included in a Great Palace and fill the entire earth ,' meaning, these five paragraphs include all the wisdom of Kabbalah ... for, Sifra diTzni ` uta is the ` little that holds the much ;' brevity with wonderful and glorious wisdom.

Under pressure within the earth, as little as a fraction of a percent partial melting may be sufficient to cause melt to be squeezed from its source.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.

Her mother Ceres, also known as Demeter, the goddess of agriculture or of the Earth, went looking for her in vain to every corner of the earth, but was not able to find anything but a small belt that was floating upon a little lake ( made with the tears of the nymphs ).

A common misconception is that only concrete or earth soil has thermal mass ; even air has thermal mass ( although very little ).

Thor's marriage with Sif of the golden hair, about which we hear little in the myths, seems to be a memory of the ancient symbol of divine marriage between sky god and earth goddess, when he comes to earth in the thunderstorm and the storm brings the rain which makes the fields fertile.

Generally, the Chorzów industry suffered little damage during World War II due to its inaccessibility to Allied bombing, a Soviet Army enveloping maneuver in January 1945, and perhaps Albert Speer's slowness or refusal to implement the scorched earth policy.

This roughly circular temple was found on top of Chapel Hill a little to the south of the fort, its walls of undressed stone facing with an earth and rubble infill enclosed an area measuring about 17¼ ft. across ; the insubstantial foundations indicate that the superstructure was at least half-timbered.

Napoleon I of France took advantage of these developments to pursue a brutally effective " strategy of annihilation " ( see scorched earth ) that terrorized the populace and cared little for the mathematical perfection of the geometric strategy.

The story tells that the first earth came to be when Dâyuni ' sï ( Beaver's Grandchild ), the little Water beetle came from Gälûñ ' lätï, the sky realm, to see what was below the water.