Adam watched his own hands make the caressing, anxious movement that, when rain falls and nobody comes, and ruin draws close like a cat rubbing against the ankles, has been the ritual of stall vendors, forever.

Aging but still precocious, French feline enfant terrible Francoisette Lagoon has succeeded in shocking jaded old Paris again, this time with a sexy ballet scenario called The Lascivious Interlude, the story of a nymphomaniac trip-hammer operator who falls hopelessly in love with a middle-aged steam shovel.

But inevitably the border which has divided the ghetto from the rest of the world falls into the hands of the ghetto.

Although progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that are needed for an informed America.

Sanskrit nouns in this case often refer to a subject " out of " which or " from " whom something ( an action, an object ) has arisen or occurred — e. g., patram vṛkṣāt patati " the leaf falls from the tree ".

Ebor is at fairly high altitude, about 1, 300 metres and by Australian standards, has cold winters with overnight frost and occasional light snow falls.

Godzilla has an allergic reaction to the Cadmium shells that are fired into his mouth by the Super X, and falls down unconscious.

Gertrude falls and, in her dying breath, announces that she has been poisoned.

Bogart plays embittered writer Dixon Steele, who has a history of violence and becomes a suspect in a murder case at the same time that he falls in love with a failed actress, played by Gloria Grahame.

A Viking longship is burnt during Edinburgh's annual Hogmanay celebrations ( though Edinburgh has no historical connection with the Norse invaders ). When Ne ' erday falls on a Sunday, 3 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Saturday, both 3 and 4 January will be public holidays in Scotland ; when Ne ' erday falls on a Friday, 4 January becomes an additional public holiday in Scotland.

Hanukkah is not mentioned in the Bible and was never considered a major holiday in Judaism, but it has become much more visible and widely celebrated in modern times, mainly because it falls around the same time as Christmas and has national Jewish overtones that have been emphasized since the establishment of the State of Israel.

Though these courts have discretion to deny cases they otherwise could adjudicate, no court has the discretion to hear a case that falls outside of its subject-matter jurisdiction.

In 1882 Pope Leo XIII had a Mass and an Office composed for his feast day, which he set at 14 April, the day after the day indicated as that of his death in the Martyrology of Florus ; but since this date quite often falls within the main Paschal celebrations, the feast was moved in 1968 to 1 June, the date on which he has been celebrated in the Byzantine Rite since at least the 9th century.

In one part of " The Tales of Genji ( Genji monogatari )", Genji falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, who he has never seen before, after he hears her playing koto from a distance.

Kagoshima has a humid subtropical climate, marked by cool, relatively dry winters, warm, wet springs, hot, wet summers and mild, wet falls.

As an example of how an appealing slippery slope argument can be unsound, suppose that whenever a tree falls down, it has a 95 % chance of knocking over another tree.

The federal government has little input into the administration of syariah ; it falls to the states to implement Islamic law, and interpretations vary from state to state.

It has an extreme continental climate with long, cold winters and short summers, during which most precipitation falls.

May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.

Due to the low abundance of irons in collection areas such as Antarctica, where most of the meteoric material that has fallen can be recovered, it is possible that the actual percentage of iron-meteorite falls is lower than 5 %.

A few motels ( particularly in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where a motel strip extending from Lundy's Lane ( 20 ) to the falls has long been marketed to newlyweds ) would offer " honeymoon suites " with extra amenities such as whirlpool baths.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

Arminian theology usually falls into one of two groups — Classical Arminianism, drawn from the teaching of Jacobus Arminius — and Wesleyan Arminian, drawing primarily from Wesley.

* 2003 – U. S. troops capture Baghdad ; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

If for instance there had been a wire walker the reprise would involve two chairs with a piece of rope between and the clown trying to imitate the artiste by trying to walk between them with the resulting falls and cascades bringing laughter from the audience.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Today, most Chianti falls under two major designations of Chianti DOCG, which includes basic level Chianti, as well as that from seven designated sub-zones, and Chianti Classico DOCG.

Modern improvisational comedy, as it is practiced in the West, falls generally into two categories: shortform and longform.

Some Neopagans time the celebration to the solar midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox, which now falls later in the first week or two of February.

When discussing what complexity classes the integer factorization problem falls into, it's necessary to distinguish two slightly different versions of the problem:

) in the two northern regions of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, but falls to less than one person per km² ( 2. 6 / sq.

In this case, the framed miniature contains two men, perhaps Spanish, with uncovered wavy light brown hair that falls to the jaw line.

The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.

Falk turned in a gem of a performance as one of two cabbies who falls victim to greed in the epic 1963 star-studded comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, even though he appears only in the last fifth of the movie.

Software, and its accompanying source code, typically falls within one of two licensing paradigms: free software and proprietary software.

Other cuts included the reduction of multiple gunshot impacts into Gamble's feet in the morgue down to a single hit ; a close-up of his screaming face as the air conditioner falls onto him ; a sound cut to Mason snapping a Marine's neck and two bloody gunshot wounds ( to Hummel and Baxter ), both near the end of the film.

This passageway allows vessels with shallow drafts to navigate from the lower Orinoco to the Amazon River system after unloading and reloading on either side of two falls on the Orinoco along the Colombian border.

However, in 1962 John A. Wheeler and Robert W. Fuller published a paper showing that this type of wormhole is unstable if it connects two parts of the same universe, and that it will pinch off too quickly for light ( or any particle moving slower than light ) that falls in from one exterior region to make it to the other exterior region.

* October 7 – Almería, one of the most important maritime and commercial centers of al-Andalus, falls into Christian hands after two months of siege.

It falls into the Ajiva category, divided into two parts: Loakasa ( the part occupied by the material world ) and Aloakasa ( the space beyond it which is absolutely void and empty ).

There are two advantages to barbecue-braising: the first is that this method now allows for browning the meat directly on the grill before the braising, and the second is that it also allows for glazing the meat with sauce and finishing it directly over the fire after the braising, effectively cooking the meat three times, which results in a soft textured product that falls right off the bone.

Each follicle usually contains one or two small seeds, each with a wedge-shaped papery wing that causes it to spin as it falls to the ground.

; Intermodulation distortion: This form of distortion occurs when two sine waves of frequencies X and Y are present at the input, resulting in the creation of several other frequency components, whose frequencies include ( X + Y ), ( X-Y ), ( 2X-Y ), ( 2Y-X ), and generally ( mX ± nY ) for integer m and n. Generally the size of the unwanted output falls rapidly as m and n increase.

Most years, the Eastern Pascha falls after the Western Easter, and it may be as much as five weeks later ; occasionally, the two dates coincide.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.