Statue of Rob Roy Situated high up on the steep, rocky bank of the Culter Burn near the western exit of the village is a colourful and well-tended kilted wooden figure holding a broadsword and targe ( shield ) that represents Rob Roy Macgregor, who according to local legend leapt across the stream at that point to escape pursuing Hanoverian troops.

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.

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.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

This figure looked like the slave dealer from that.

The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.

He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

Inflow of air from the surrounding atmosphere was prevented by the two disks shown in figure 2.

The best way to determine the correct figure ( in captives ) is by direct observation of pairs isolated from birth, a method that produced surprising results: maturing of a male Indian python in less than two years, his mate in less than three ; ;

The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).

Orlick might almost be Magwitch's bogy man come alive, a figure of nemesis from Pip's phantasy of guilt.

The eyes of the figure of the Nile are covered, perhaps either to symbolize the mystery of her source or to obscure from her sight the baroque facade of the Church of Sant' Agnese in Agone, the work of Bernini's rival, Borromini.

He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

This central charge would thus be approximately half the atomic weight ( though it was almost 25 % off the figure for the atomic number in gold ( Z = 79, A = 197 ), the single element from which Rutherford made his guess ).

Official statistics show that as many 575, 000 tourists visited Armenia from abroad in 2009 ; the government stated earlier in 2010 that the figure will surpass 620, 000 in 2010.

Although MacDougall's results varied considerably from " 21 grams ", for some people this figure has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's mass.

The book, which fictionalized the Alcott family during the girls ' coming-of-age years, recast the father figure as a soldier, away from home while he fought in the Civil War.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Then the audience saw a small, dim figure appear at the edge of the Presidential box.

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 ).

The game box contains three rules booklets, a booklet of character sheets, one of tables for the Gamemaster, a page of cardboard figure silhouettes to be cut out, and a set 6, 8, and 20-sided dice.

The upper figure shows three standing waves in a box.

Therefore the amplifier chain can be modelled as a black box having a gain of and a noise figure given by.

The female figure holds the symbol of the two twisted reeds of the doorpost, signifying Inanna behind her, while the male figure holds a box and stack of bowls, the later cuneiform sign signifying En, or high priest of the temple.

Two of the most common are variable width box plots and notched box plots ( see figure 4 ).

This ensures easy visibility of the action figure inside of the box.

This figure transforms into his spaceship ( similar to the box packaging of the original Buzz Lightyear toy ), with his head transforming into a miniature Buzz Lightyear pilot figure.

In this skit, Ernie opens his lunch box to find that half of his sandwich is missing, so he asks Sherlock Hemlock to help him figure out who took the missing half.

At the time, the film took in a higher figure than any other Disney animated feature since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, earning an estimated $ 7. 5 million in rentals at the North American box office in 1955.

The positive feedback is introduced by adding a part of the output voltage to the input voltage ; so, these circuits contain an attenuator ( the B box in the figure on the right ) and a summer ( the circle with "+" inside ) in addition to an amplifier acting as a comparator.

In this game, Mario's archrival Wario must free a mysterious figure who is trapped inside a music box.

There, a mysterious figure informs Wario that he had once ruled the world inside the music box, until an evil being sealed away his magical powers in five music boxes.

The Quaker figure who adorns Quaker Oats ' products packaging has been anonymously referred to as " the guy on the oatmeal box " in various episodes of Nickelodeon / Klasky-Csupo's Rugrats, in reference to one of Chuckie Finster's multifarious childhood phobias.

Hiltzik was unsatisfied with the directors ' response, writing that their method was to " construct a seemingly solid box office figure out of layers and layers of speculation piled upon a foundation of sand.

A shrine ( " case or chest for books or papers "; Old French: escrin " box or case ") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

At the end of the tune there is a " surprise ", the lid pops open and a figure, usually a clown or jester, pops out of the box.

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.

almost at once a figure bulked up.

The mercy that Christ infused into Mosaic Law underlies the injury tariffs that figure so prominently in barbarian law codes, since Christian synods " established, through that mercy which Christ taught, that for almost every misdeed at the first offence secular lords might with their permission receive without sin the monetary compensation, which they then fixed.

This figure, which is intended as a personification of man's immaterial part, is considered as in almost every respect the most faultless and classical of Canova's works.

As one biographer wrote, " found himself almost the only figure on his side capable of putting up the oratorical display essential for a parliamentary leader.

The name of Charlie Chaplin was said to be " a part of the common language of almost every country ", and according to Harper's Weekly his " little, baggy-trousered figure " was " universally familiar ".

Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.

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.

A similar figure with the same name ( in other languages ) exists in several other countries, including France ( Père Noël ), Spain ( Papá Noel, Padre Noel ), almost all Hispanic South America ( Papá Noel ), Brazil ( Papai Noel ), Portugal ( Pai Natal ), Italy ( Babbo Natale ), Armenia ( Kaghand Papik ), India ( Christmas Father ), Andorra ( Pare Noel ), Romania ( Moş Crăciun ) and Turkey ( Noel Baba ).

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 ).

Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at Olympia and two of the great fifth and sixth century temples of Paestum, the termagant of Homer and the myths is an " almost ... comic figure " according to Burkert.

Nontraditional vegetables and fruit produced US $ 23. 8 million in export revenue in 1990, a figure that was almost double the 1983 figure.

John Dover Wilson thought it almost certain that the figure of Polonius caricatured Burleigh, while A. L. Rowse speculated that Polonius's tedious verbosity might have resembled Burghley's.

If Polybius is correct in his figure for the number of troops he commanded after the crossing of the Rhone, this would suggest that he had lost almost half of his force.

The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.

It should be noted, however, that the molar mass is almost always a computed figure derived from the standard atomic weights, whereas the average molecular mass, in fields that need the term, is often a measured figure specific to a sample.

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 ).

Through the Middle Ages it was spoken of as the authoritative text on astronomy, with its author becoming an almost mythical figure, called Ptolemy, King of Alexandria.