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.

I must say the figure was well made up.

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.

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

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.

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.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

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

The figure was wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence.

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

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

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.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.

Its owner is parliament deputy Samvel Aleksanian ( a. k. a. " Lfik Samo ") a figure close to the country ’ s leadership.

He was a key figure in the Danish policies of territorial expansion in the Baltic Sea, Europeanization in close relationship with the Holy See, and reform in the relation between the Church and the public.

The first figure, which represents Eurydice in flames and smoke, in the act of leaving Hades, was completed towards the close of his sixteenth year.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

Whichever figure is right, the fact remains that the human race seemingly came close to extinction about 75, 000 years ago.

Contemporary Hindu eschatology is linked in the Vaishnavite tradition to the figure of Kalki, or the tenth and last avatar of Vishnu before the age draws to a close, and Shiva simultaneously dissolves and regenerates the universe.

Due to his mother's business commitments, Gustave spent his childhood living with his grandmother, but nevertheless remained close to his mother, who was to remain an influential figure until her death in 1878.

The central apex figure of Truth is popularly known as Glasgow's Statue of Liberty, because of its close resemblance to the similarly posed, but very much larger, statue in New York harbour.

Jean is an important figure in the lives of other Marvel universe characters, mostly the X-Men, including her husband Cyclops ; her mentor and father-figure Charles Xavier ; her close friend and sometimes romantic interest Wolverine ; her best friend and sister-like figure Storm ; and her genetic children Rachel Summers, X-Man, Cable, and Stryfe.

This figure is close to an estimate of 21. 9 million persons for mid-1988 cited in the 1990 edition of the Demographic Yearbook published by the UN.

The museum also holds many precise and detailed figure studies done in his youth under his father ’ s tutelage, as well as the extensive collection of Jaime Sabartés, his close friend and personal secretary.

She developed a close friendship with Boas, who took on a role as a kind of father figure in her life – Benedict lovingly referred to him as " Papa Franz "

Bangladeshi speakers at the conference stated that the official Bangladeshi figure of civilian deaths was close to 300, 000, which was wrongly translated from Bengali into English as three million.

It is believed that the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity took place at the close of this century.

To Pope, writing in 1734, the Indian was a purely abstract figure —" poor " because uneducated and a heathen but also happy because living close to Nature.

During May and July 2009 several mountains were re-surveyed by the Munro Society to determine a more accurate height reading for those mountains which are known to be close to the 3, 000 ft figure.

Forster was a central figure of the Enlightenment in Germany, and corresponded with most of its adherents, including his close friend Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures ( as Johnny Fontane is an analogue of Frank Sinatra ), Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert Kennedy, as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello ( Carlo Tramonti ).

The origin is usually the center of mass of the earth, a point close to the Earth's center of figure.

The members consisted of Mao Zedong's last wife Jiang Qing, the leading figure of the group, and her close associates Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen.

Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.

Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $ 6. 3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release.

Ebner and Fairchild used an exponent of 0. 43 to convert linear intensity into lightness for neutrals ; the reciprocal, approximately 2. 33 ( quite close to the 2. 2 figure cited for a typical display subsystem ), would provide optimal perceptual encoding of grays.