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 was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

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.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

Similarly, the men of the Mountain Land from north of Kabol-River equivalent to medieval Kohistan ( Pakistan ), figure in the army of Darius III against Alexander at Arbela with a cavalry and fifteen elephants.

Undergraduate tuition and other student fees in 1957 comprised 17 percent of the colleges ' $ 46. 8 million in revenues, about $ 7. 74 million — a figure equivalent to $ 62. 4 million in 2011 buying power.

To rotate a figure counterclockwise around the origin by some angle is equivalent to replacing every point with coordinates ( x, y ) by the point with coordinates ( x < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, y < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), where

To make a figure larger or smaller is equivalent to multiplying the Cartesian coordinates of every point by the same positive number m. If ( x, y ) are the coordinates of a point on the original figure, the corresponding point on the scaled figure has coordinates

Figures are probably the most variable of all subjects in terms of scale and are often referred to as their metric equivalent ; for example, a 1: 32 scale figure soldier is more commonly described as " 54mm ".

France was also required to pay an indemnity ; the indemnity figure was calculated, on the basis of population, as the precise equivalent of the indemnity which Napoleon I imposed on Prussia in 1807.

For a given geometric figure in a given geometric space, consider the following equivalence relation: two automorphisms of space are equivalent if and only if the two images of the figure are the same ( here " the same " does not mean something like e. g. " the same up to translation and rotation ", but it means " exactly the same ").

Shepard had predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.

In the 1750s, 40 % of those sent to the Bastille were arrested for their role in manufacturing or dealing in banned material ; in the 1760s, the equivalent figure was 35 %.

Traditionally the prefecture as being the City Hall and the prefect as being the equivalent of a mayor and commissioner until recently ; now the prefectures and prefect are analogous with the figure of Town Clerk.

This is equivalent to 8. 7 annual rings per centimetre of core, said to be half the commonly quoted figure for growth rate.

# " The word is Scandinavian and is compounded of Old Norse fiǫl -, equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon fela, German viel, " many ", and fótr, " foot ", the many-footed figure.

In the United States, the equivalent mandatory labels display only " Calories ", often as a substitute for the name of the quantity being measured, food energy ; an additional kilojoules figure is optional and is rarely used.

Almost 30 % of Armidale's total population is in the 10-24 year age group, compared with an equivalent NSW figure of only 19. 4 % ( 2001 Census ).

The equivalent Italian figure was about 75, 000.

Another, equivalent way to describe the same is that the distribution figure of each candidate is the votes for his party divided by his rank within his party ; the candidates with highest distribution figures are elected.

An equivalent figure also appears in a Latin version, Bodleian Library, Aubrey MS. 24, dated to 1674.

However, the resulting figure is topologically equivalent to a truncated cuboctahedron and can always be deformed until the faces are regular.

However, the resulting figure is topologically equivalent to this and can always be deformed until the faces are regular.

Shepard predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.