At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

After the first two murders, the warning notes were rarely ignored.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

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.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

The political rivalry between Liberals and Colorados was presaged as early as 1869 when the terms Azules ( Blues ) and Colorados ( Reds ) first appeared.

George Capwell Stadium opened its doors for the first time on October 21 of 1945, the inaugural game was a Baseball match between Emelec and Oriente, and George Capwell played as a catcher for the " Azules " ( Emelec ).

The first “ Classic ” writer was Aulus Gellius, a 2nd-century Roman writer who, in the miscellany Noctes Atticae ( 19, 8, 15 ), refers to a writer as a Classicus scriptor, non proletarius (“ A distinguished, not a commonplace writer ”).

The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas (“ fool ”), and the third is Samael.

Soglow was later added as second vice president (“ to follow the first vice president around ”).

The first SLR cameras with internal (“ through-the-lens ” or “ TTL ”) meters ( e. g., the Pentax Spotmatic ) required that the lens be stopped down to the working aperture when taking a meter reading.

Their first date follows Annie ’ s singing audition for a night club (“ It Had to be You ”).

It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, " L ' artiste, le savant et l ' industriel ", (“ The artist, the scientist and the industrialist ”, 1825 ) which contains the first recorded use of " avant-garde " in its now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to " serve as people's avant-garde ", insisting that " the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way " to social, political, and economic reform.

A secondary objective was to obtain data on mass concentrations (“ mascons ”) on the Moon first detected by Luna 10.

It is also Chrétien who first gives Lancelot the name Lancelot du Lac (“ Lancelot of the Lake ”) which was later picked up by the Anglo-French Lancelot-Grail and then Malory.

* The yearly Dorpsdag (“ village day ”) takes place on the first Sunday in September and features a procession commemorating the consecration of the main chapel in 1753.

The players must play a card with the same suit as the first card of the trick, if possible (“ following suit ”).

In 1978 Bank of America issued the first residential mortgage-backed security that securitized residential mortgages not guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise (“ private label RMBS ”).

Some of the most famous fados of Coimbra include: Fado Hilário, Saudades de Coimbra (“ Do Choupal até à Lapa ”), Balada da Despedida (“ Coimbra tem mais encanto, na hora da despedida ”-the first phrases are often more recognizable than the song titles ), O meu menino é d ’ oiro, and Samaritana.

In Budapest, on leaves and during convalescence, Moholy-Nagy became involved first with the journal Jelenkor (“ The Present Age ”), edited by Hevesy, and then with the “ Activist ” circle around Lajos Kassák ’ s journal Ma (“ Today ”).

However for the second half of the war, Messerschmitt turned almost entirely to jet-powered designs, producing the world's first operational jet fighter, the Me 262 Schwalbe (“ Swallow ”).

Site specific environmental art was first described as a movement by architectural critic Catherine Howett (“ New Directions in Environmental Art ,” Landscape Architecture, Jan. 1977 ) and art critic Lucy Lippard (“ Art Outdoors, In and Out of the Public Domain ,” Studio International, March – April 1977 ).

Then a second neutral stimulus (“ CS2 ”) is paired with the first ( CS2-CS1 ) and comes to yield its own conditioned response.

The ads, which played off the double entendre in the headline (“ X talks about his first time ”), initially appeared to discuss the star ’ s first sexual experience before revealing that the discussion actually concerned the subject's first time drinking Campari.

Secondary enhancers, or “ shadow enhancers ,” may be found many kilobases away from the primary enhancer (“ primary ” usually refers to the first enhancer discovered, which is often closer to the gene it regulates ).

The first industrial distillery was established in 1759 by Francesco Drioli (“ Fabbrica di Maraschino Drioli di Zara ”).

Beginning their recording and live life as a band in January 1972, this line up recorded the band ’ s first two singles, two full-length albums (“ Planxty ” and “ The Well Below The Valley ”) and toured all over Ireland, Britain and Europe.