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 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.

Supporters: Dexter, a Female Figure ( representing Peace ) proper vested Argent cloaked Azure wreathed round the temples with a Chaplet and holding in the exterior hand a branch of Olive also proper ; and Sinister, a like figure ( representing Prosperity ) vested Argent cloaked Gules wreathed round the temples with a Chaplet of Corn and supporting with the exterior hand a Cornucopia proper.

Will Murray has speculated that this dream image of Nyarlathotep may have been inspired by the inventor Nikola Tesla, whose well-attended lectures did involve extraordinary experiments with electrical apparatus and whom some saw as a sinister figure.

An extraordinary figure among the ancient Greek astronomers is Aristarchus of Samos ( 310 BCE – c. 230 BCE ), who suggested a heliocentric model of the universe and attempted to measure Earth's distance from the Sun.

In the Sala deilo Scrutinio Tintoretto painted the Capture of Zara from the Hungarians in 1346 amid a Hurricane of Missiles ; in the hail of the senate, Venice, Queen of the Sea ; in the hall of the college, the Espousal of St Catherine to Jesus ; in the Sala dell Anticollegio, four extraordinary masterpieces-Bacchus, with Ariadne crowned by Venus, the Three Graces and Mercury, Minerva discarding Mars, and the Forge of Vulcan which were painted for fifty ducats each, besides materials, towards 1578 ; in the Antichiesetta, St George and St Nicholas, with St Margaret ( the female figure is sometimes termed the princess whom St George rescued from the dragon ), and St Jerome and St Andrew ; in the hall of the great council, nine large compositions, chiefly battle-pieces.

These interpretations draw upon the French romances which portray Morgan as a " benevolent figure " with extraordinary healing powers.

His possession of extraordinary knowledge at a young age is similar to that of the Islamic tradition of Jesus – a figure called to leadership and prophetic mission while still a child.

Michael Murphy is the co-founder of the Esalen Institute, a key figure in the Human Potential Movement and author of The Future of the Body and other books on topics related to extraordinary human potential.

Count Juan Raphael Dante ( born John Timothy Keehan in Chicago, Illinois, 2 February 1939, died 25 May 1975 ) was a controversial American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s who claimed he could do extraordinary feats such as Dim mak.

He also had a collector ’ s passion which, on Lake of Como, did not have any rivals except for the figure of Giovan Battista Sommariva, owner of the villa bearing the same name ( nowadays Villa Carlotta ), who, politically defeated by Melzi himself ( who was preferred by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 as vice-president of the Italian Republic ), tried to re-acquire the lost prestige by assembling an extraordinary art collection.

In the decanonized book " Force of Arms " ( book 5 of the series ) by Jack McKinney, Miriya's giving birth to Dana is all the more extraordinary because nobody could figure out how Max and Miriya had been able to conceive a child since no Zentraedi male-female reproduction had ever been recorded.

The story follows him through his lonely despair until he becomes the honoured companion of a king and an important figure in an extraordinary revolution.

In the decanonized book " Force of Arms " ( book 5 of the series ) by Jack McKinney, Miriya giving birth to Dana is all the more extraordinary because nobody could quite figure out how Max and Miriya had been able to conceive a child since no Zentraedi male-female reproduction had ever been recorded, ( or that Zentraedi females ' biological reproductive apparatus has been genetically preserved, fully developed and functional ; even after 500, 000 years of non-use since the race of Zentraedi warriors was created ?).

Among the founder-members were Hassan Nezam ( 1922 – 1958 ), the principal founder, who was killed in Tehran in 1958 by SAVAK ( this extraordinary activist was also a leading regional figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, Khuzestan province, under the name Hassan Dorood ); Erik Mansoorian, who died in Abadan after returning to Iran in 1964 ; Hassan M. Saleh ( 1926 – 2000 ), who, from the early 1960s, was in a state of a chronic mental dysfunction as a result of severe torture ; Ali Madan ( 1932 – 1995 ); Ahmed al-Thawadi, “ Saif Bin Ali ” ( 1937 – 2006 ); and Ali Dwaigher ( born 1930 ).

Former party leader Charles Kennedy has described Rennard as " a quite extraordinary figure in British politics ”.

This figure represents Izad Bahram, who, in all the extraordinary adventures of Ardashir, performs the role of guardian and guiding angel.

The extraordinary survival of the figure type, though interpretations and cult context shifted over the intervening centuries, is expressed by the cast terracotta funerary figure of the first century BCE, from Myrina on the coast of Mysia in Asia Minor, where it was excavated by the French School at Athens, 1883 ; the terracotta is conserved in the Musée du Louvre ( illustrated left ).

The Washington Post called Dockstader " a highly imaginative pioneer ," and The Wire concluded, " The obsessive care with which Starkland have compiled these extraordinary recordings should ensure that Dockstader will be remembered as the innovative, visionary figure he undoubtedly was.

The figure has been shown to date back some 3, 000 years, to the Bronze Age, by means of optically stimulated luminescence dating carried out following archaeological investigations in 1994.

He was a key figure in dating the arrival of Indigenous Australians, first with radiocarbon dating and later with luminescence techniques, and, more generally, in the study of the archeology of Indigenous Australians.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.