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 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.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

Carl Eduard Schmidt counted 1804 different lines repeated exactly in the two Homeric poems, and by increasing this figure so as to include lines repeated with very slight modifications he counted 2118 different lines used a total of 5612 times.

Yes, well, it's a pity to spoil your girlish figure -- which all those kittens would do anyway -- but I think when you've raised these we'll just have the vet fix it so there won't be any more.

This figure is not expected to increase significantly so long as the land border between the Armenia and Turkey remains closed.

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.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

When Attlee died, his estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £ 7, 295, a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure.

In this example the size of the vertex figure was chosen so that its circumcircle lies on the intersphere of the cuboctahedron, which also becomes the intersphere of the dual rhombic dodecahedron.

Christ is God and is a ray of the eternal light ; but the figure of the ray is so limited by Eusebius that he expressly distinguishes the Son as distinct from Father as a ray is also distinct from its source the sun.

If so, then this legendary figure would also be the descended from Munju of Baekje.

In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem states that, given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions of the map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color.

He says that if a figure be any how divided and the compartments differently coloured so that figures with any portion of common boundary line are differently coloured — four colours may be wanted but not more — the following is his case in which four colours are wanted.

His figure was pleasing and majestic, but when angry, his eyes became so terrible that “ the wretch on whom it was fixed instantly fell backwards and sometimes expired ”.

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Davidson concludes that, in these examples, " here we have the fierce destructive side of death, with a strong emphasis on its physical horrors, so perhaps we should not assume that the gruesome figure of Hel is wholly Snorri's literary invention.

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

" In priestly wisdom, in magic, in the formulation of wise proverbs ; in medicine and architecture ; this remarkable figure of Zoser's reign left so notable a reputation that his name was never forgotten.

Pretorius serves as a " gay Mephistopheles ", a figure of seduction and temptation, going so far as to pull Frankenstein away from his bride on their wedding night to engage in the unnatural act of non-procreative life.

" Russo goes so far as to suggest that Whale's homosexuality is expressed in both Frankenstein and Bride as " a vision both films had of the monster as an antisocial figure in the same way that gay people were ' things ' that should not have happened ".

Despite his position as the most important Irish artist of the 20th century ( and the first to sell for over £ 1m ), he took no pupils and allowed no one to watch him work, so he remains a unique figure.

The figure is related to Heliodurus's work, Aethiopian History with its description of " a young Lady, sitting upon a Rock, of so rare and perfect a Beauty, as one would have taken her for a Goddess, and though her present misery opprest her with extreamest grief, yet in the greatness of her afflection, they might easily perceive the greatness of her Courage: A Laurel crown'd her Head, an a Quiver in a Scarf hanged at her back ".

In other words, the pressure on either end of the liquid ( shown in blue in the figure to the right ) must be balanced ( since the liquid is static ) and so.

Often coordinates can be chosen so that only two components are needed, as in the figure.