Gavin stood on the porch, a thin figure.

Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.

Deputy Marshal Luke Harper still stood guard on the veranda, a forlorn, scarecrowish figure in the murky dark.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

You figure it out.

A few minutes later I saw my Uncle's car drive up and a woman's figure emerge and walk to the corner.

I must say the figure was well made up.

He said hesitantly, `` Hettie, I don't figure your things got wet too much.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

Tall, blonde, blue-eyes, fair, buxom without being heavy, she cut a fine figure of budding womanhood as she swished among the pupils in her fresh, starched summer dress.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

He bent down, a black cranelike figure, and put his mouth to the ground.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

It may establish the relation of the figure of the dancer to light and color, in which case changes in the light or color will set off a kaleidescope of visual designs.

Again, the sufferings and disasters produced by any transgression against the commandment not to love are almost invariably associated in one way or another with childhood, with the figure of a child.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

For this reason, he appears as an independent and self-reliant figure, whose rugged individualism need not be pressed into the mold of a 9 to 5 routine.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

I have argued that Oedipus of the Oedipus complex has a doubtful future as a tragic figure in literature.

Wright set his loss at $200,000, a figure perhaps justified by the unique character of the house that had been ruined, and the faultless taste that had gone into the selection of the prints and other things that were destroyed.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

The standard theological view of world history at the time was known as the six ages of the world ; in his book, Bede calculated the age of the world for himself, rather than accepting the authority of Isidore of Seville, and came to the conclusion that Christ had been born 3, 952 years after the creation of the world, rather than the figure of over 5, 000 years that was commonly accepted by theologians.

Researcher Craig Etcheson of the Documentation Center of Cambodia suggests that the death toll was between 2 and 2. 5 million, with a " most likely " figure of 2. 2 million.

$ 19. 2 billion ( 104. 5 billion Kuna ) 2007 ( official figure )

It had an estimated total of 900, 000 Internet subscribers by the end of 2005, a figure that equated to 4, 739, 000 Internet users, or 11. 5 percent of the 2005 population ( 10. 9 per 100 inhabitants ).

However, fewer than 165, 000 passenger journeys were made in 1999, as compared with more than 5 million in 1972, and the figure was only 160, 130 in 2005.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

The overall trade balance for August 2012 was a surplus of almost 390 million dollars for the first six months of 2012, a huge figure compared with that of 2007, which reached only $ 5. 7 million ; the surplus had risen by about 425 million compared to 2006.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

The only minority language with a significant number of speakers ( 5. 4 %) was Polish ( a figure that rises to over 6 % when including Kashubian, Masurian, and other forms classified by the Imperial government as separate languages but today more often considered variants of Polish ).

It can be represented by its vertex figure as 3. 3. 3. 3. 3 or 3 < sup > 5 </ sup >, and also by Schläfli symbol

Martin David Kahane (; 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990 ), also known as Meir Kahane (), was an American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure.

Government figures indicate that 5, 000 Chinese miners die in accidents each year, while other reports have suggested a figure as high as 20, 000.

The latter figure means that a nuclear fission explosion or criticality accident emits about 3. 5 % of its energy as gamma rays, less than 2. 5 % of its energy as fast neutrons ( total ~ 6 %), and the rest as kinetic energy of fission fragments ( this appears almost immediately when the fragments impact surrounding matter, as simple heat ).

Manufactured exports, by most definitions, accounted for less than 5 percent of total exports ; when semiprocessed agricultural products were included, however, that figure reached 77 percent.

The 5 × 12 box has 1010 solutions, the 4 × 15 box has 368 solutions, and the 3 × 20 box has just 2 solutions ( one is shown in the figure, and the other one can be obtained from the solution shown by rotating, as a whole, the block consisting of the L, N, F, T, W, Y, and Z pentominoes ).

South Korea's defense exports were $ 1. 03 billion in 2008 and $ 1. 17 billion in 2009, and South Korea aims to increase the figure to $ 1. 5 billion in 2010.

This compares with a figure of 5, 157 recorded in 1998.

Saint Helena's gross domestic product ( GDP ) by purchasing power parity for the 1994 / 5 financial year was US $ 13. 9 million, and this figure, per capita, was $ 2, 000.

In a container, lifted above the liquid level, it forms visible droplets as seen in figure 5.

C < sub > 1 </ sub > is the trivial group containing only the identity operation, which occurs when the figure has no symmetry at all, for example the letter F. C < sub > 2 </ sub > is the symmetry group of the letter Z, C < sub > 3 </ sub > that of a triskelion, C < sub > 4 </ sub > of a swastika, and C < sub > 5 </ sub >, C < sub > 6 </ sub > etc.

However, the true figure lies closer to 85 %, Muslims are some 10 % and 5 % other religions including Christianity, Hinduism, especially among immigrants.