Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "fiction" ¶ 422
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

first and shrill
The women dislike each other on first sight, and their feud only escalates from there: shrill Blanche has nothing but disdain for Bonnie, Clyde and C. W., while gun-moll Bonnie sees Blanche's flighty presence as a constant danger to the gang's well-being.
: Somewhat the same sensations that the audience in Koster and Bial's Music Hall must have felt on that night, years ago, when motion pictures were first publicly flashed on a large screen were probably felt by the people who witnessed the first public showing of Cinerama the other night ... the shrill screams of the ladies and the pop-eyed amazement of the men when the huge screen was opened to its full size and a thrillingly realistic ride on a roller-coaster was pictured upon it, attested to the shock of the surprise.
In the first episode she admits to having dreams of becoming an actress but her voice is shrill, and her singing is later shown to be downright terrible.
South Carolinians had been discontented with the proprietary system before the Yamasee War, but the call for change became shrill in 1715, after the first phase of the war, and only grew louder in the following years.

first and ring
When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.
-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.
The first boxing rules, called the Broughton's rules, were introduced by champion Jack Broughton in 1743 to protect fighters in the ring where deaths sometimes occurred.
This is often called the " no hiding " rule, since it prevents players from placing their first shots where their opponent must traverse completely though the guarded centre ring to hit them and avoid fouling.
* The reinforce: This portion of the piece is frequently divided into a first reinforce and a second reinforce, but in any case is marked as separate from the chase by the presence of a narrow circular reinforce ring or band at its foremost end.
If A is a fixed element of a ring ℜ, the first additional relation can also be interpreted as a Leibniz rule for the map given by B ↦.
Crocheted fabric is begun by placing a slip-knot loop on the hook ( though other methods, such as a magic ring or simple folding over of the yarn may be used ), pulling another loop through the first loop, and repeating this process to create a chain of a suitable length.
The first inductee was Bob Lilly in 1975 and by 2005, the ring contained 17 names, all former Dallas players except for one head coach and one general manager / president.
Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.
Hands three, four etc ..-the designated number of dancers form a ring and move around in the direction indicated, usually first to the left and back to the right.
At first Honorius based his capital in Mediolanum, but when the Visigoths under King Alaric I entered Italy in 401 he moved his capital to the coastal city of Ravenna, which was protected by a ring of marshes and strong fortifications.
Surrounding all is a ring or horseshoe-shaped layer of raw coal, usually kept damp and tightly packed to maintain the shape of the fire's heart and to keep the coal from burning directly so that it " cooks " into coke first.
In the uneasy silence following the cessation of Stalin's last agonies, Beria was the first to dart forward to kiss his lifeless form ( a move likened by Sebag-Montefiore to " wrenching a dead King's ring off his finger ").
When Nekron is defeated, Larfleeze takes the ring from Luthor, leaving him powerless, and allows Luthor to remain on Earth with the Green Lanterns ( although Sinestro notes that this is the first time Larfleeze has given anyone anything ).
Written by Paul Cornell, the first story entitled " The Black Ring " explores Luthor's more aggressive lust for power in the wake of his exposure to a power ring in the Blackest Night event.
Thailand's first boxing ring was built in 1921 at Suan Kularp.
The ring in the objective has special optical properties: it, first of all, reduces the direct light in intensity, but more importantly, it creates an artificial phase difference of about a quarter wavelength.
Soon afterwards the first ring of medieval walls were built.
The motorway was first mooted early in the 20th century as part of the plan to build four ring roads around London.
Pyrimidines are synthesized first from aspartate and carbamoyl-phosphate in the cytoplasm to the common precursor ring structure orotic acid, onto which a phosphorylated ribosyl unit is covalently linked.
Purines, however, are first synthesized from the sugar template onto which the ring synthesis occurs.
Cho were the first to propose a ring system that has become the prototype of the current shape of PET.
Due to the legitimate role that referees play in wrestling of serving as liaison between the bookers backstage and the wrestlers in the ring ( the role of being a final arbitrator is merely kayfabe ), the referee is present, even in matches that do not at first glance appear to require a referee ( such as a ladder match, as it is no holds barred, and the criteria for victory could theoretically be assessed from afar ).
They first travel to the Puppeteer home world, where they learn that the expedition's goal is to explore a ringworld: an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit ( which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference ), encircling a Sol-type star.

first and telephone
In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.
The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.
The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.
In the mid-1870s, a form of amplitude modulation — initially called " undulatory currents "— was the first method to successfully produce quality audio over telephone lines.
One of the first plastics made from synthetic components, Bakelite was used for its electrical nonconductivity and heat-resistant properties in electrical insulators, radio and telephone casings, and such diverse products as kitchenware, jewelry, pipe stems, and children's toys.
" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.
The first major model for communication was introduced by by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver for Bell Laboratories in 1949 The original model was designed to mirror the functioning of radio and telephone technologies.
The first rule is used in many ( but not all ) dictionaries, the second in telephone directories ( so that Wilson, Jim K appears with other people named Wilson, Jim and not after Wilson, Jimbo ).
This term was first used by AT & T in commerce on July 5, 1960 and then was introduced to the public on November 18, 1963, when the first push-button telephone was made available to the public.
Early wet cells powered the first telegraph and telephone systems, and were the source of current for electroplating.
* 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
Site of the first telephone exchange in City Mill Lane.
Then one day, his wife received a telephone call from Patti Palmer, first wife of Jerry Lewis.
" He found out that the malicious connotations were present at MIT in 1963 already ( quoting The Tech, a MIT Student Magazine ) and then referred to unauthorized users of the telephone network, The Newsweek article appears to be the first use of the word hacker by the mainstream media in the pejorative sense.
In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.
The first off-island telephone link was established in 1929, with the laying of a cable by the CS Faraday between Port Erin and Ballyhornan in Northern Ireland, a distance of 57 km, and then between Port Grenaugh and Blackpool, primarily to provide a link to Northern Ireland.
Previously, on April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN.
The first milestones in the Japanese media history were newspapers in the Meiji period, the first being the Nagasaki Shipping List & Advertiser, founded 1861 in Nagasaki, with the telegraph and telephone following suit.
* 2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
* 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
* 1937 – The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London

0.373 seconds.