He was dead before he hit the ground.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

Horse smell was very strong, and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground between strong jaws.

Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

The curb was a line of stone laid edgewise in the dirt and tilted this way and that by frost in the ground or the roots of trees.

Strindberg's remedy for this condition was to tear down the old structures and build anew from the ground up.

Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.

To Pike, silence was tantamount to an admission of guilt, and he determined to get Robinson onto the dueling ground at all costs.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.

Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground, while Joseph of Arimathea was at Pontius Pilate's asking for Christ's body, Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes, and the others had gone home to mourn.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Although they drew light ground fire they saw no signs of activity.

It did something to clear the ground, but it erected no striking new structure ; ;

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.

This was a bitterly fought game, carrying almost as much grudge as a fist fight, with no friendliness exhibited between the teams except the formal politeness that accompanied the setting forth of ground rules and agreements on balls that went into the crowd.

Actually, the officers on the ground had no intention of letting the hijackers get away with any kind of an airplane ; ;

There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.

The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.

In the end of the ensuing struggle he succeeded to crash his aircraft into the ground near Thatta on seeing no way to prevent the hijack and the defection.

The DATM-54 was not made in a C version as there was no change in the ground handling characteristics.

A ground blizzard has snowdrifts and blowing snow near the ground, but no falling snow.

When properly managed, there should be no ground contamination from leachate.

" Upham's book refers to Robert Calef 25 times with the majority of these regarding documents compiled by Calef in the mid-1690s and stating: " Although zealously devoted to the work of exposing the enormities connected with the witchcraft prosecutions, there is no ground to dispute the veracity of Calef as to matters of fact.

If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less.

Such confidence in the group to find the ground truth is explicable through the success of wisdom of the crowd based inferences, however, if there is no access to the ground truth, as there was not in this model, the method will fail.

However, there is virtually no ground public transportation to other destinations.

If not specified, there's no penalty for a disc landing any height above the ground.

Its apparently solid ground is no rock, but thin air.

If no player is able to legally catch the ball it is an incomplete pass and the ball becomes dead the moment it touches the ground.

Moller has been developing VTOL craft since the late 1960s, but no Moller vehicle has ever achieved free flight out of ground effect.

Motive power on the ground and in the air is by hydraulic drive and therefore no added gearbox is required.

The first digit, called the hallux, was short and only the other three contacted the ground, with the third ( middle ) digit longer than the rest.

In World War II, the USAAF and RAF often favored fighters over dedicated light bombers or dive bombers, and types such as the P-47 Thunderbolt and Hawker Hurricane that were no longer competitive fighters were relegated to ground attack.

From March 2003, Holden no longer held the number one sales position in Australia, losing ground to Toyota.

" To some extent this may be because the villagers were re-settled into permanent villages, where slash-and-burn agriculture was no longer appropriate, but they had no concept or tradition of fertilising the ground.

By this time however, Leipziger Platz was no longer a parade ground, and there had been much speculation about a possible complete redesign for the whole area.

For instance, we are no longer following geodesics while standing because the mechanical resistance of the Earth exerts an upward force on us, and we are non-inertial on the ground as a result.

Refrigeration and storage in sealed containers will keep ground flax from becoming rancid for a longer period ; under conditions similar to those found in commercial bakeries, trained sensory panelists could not detect differences between bread made with freshly ground flax and bread made with ground flax stored for four months at room temperature.

A further form of geosynchronous orbit is proposed for the theoretical space elevator, in which one end of the structure is tethered to the ground, maintaining a longer orbital period than by gravity alone if under tension.

Where a real ground connection has a significant resistance, the approximation of zero potential is no longer valid.

Older roots left in the ground become woody, after which they are no longer culinarily useful, although older plants can be dug and re-divided to start new plants.

The availability of science data gathering was limited to only when Ulysses is in contact with a ground station due to the deteriorating S-band downlink margin no longer being able to support simultaneous real-time data and tape recorder playback.

Traditional Florence flasks typically do not have a ground glass joint on their rather longer necks but typically have a slight lip or flange around the tip of the neck.

The platform can be reached via Bridge Street – a street in the Muslim Quarter at the level of the platform, actually sitting on a monumental bridge ; the bridge is no longer externally visible due to the change in ground level, but it may be seen from beneath via the Western Wall Tunnel.

They can remain on the tree longer than they hold the fruit, but more often achieve complete opening and release the fruits only after having fallen on the ground ; opening is partly due to soil humidity.

Sepp Holzer has successfully used no-pruning methods on his high-altitude farm in the Austrian Alps, noting that under heavy winter snow loads, short-pruned branches will break, often killing the tree, but longer unpruned branches will bend down and touch the ground, thus giving them another point of support and preventing breakage.

A Cŵn Annwn's goal in the Wild Hunt is to hunt wrongdoers into the ground until they can run no longer, just as the criminals did to their victims.

Cray Wanderers F. C., established in 1860 no longer plays in Orpington, but now shares a ground with Bromley F. C.

By 1922, the popularity of tennis had grown to the extent that the club's small ground could no longer cope with the numbers of spectators and the renamed All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club moved to new grounds close to Wimbledon Park.

Extrinsic devices have impurities, also called dopants, added whose ground state energy is closer to the conduction band ; since the electrons do not have as far to jump, lower energy photons ( i. e., longer wavelengths and lower frequencies ) are sufficient to trigger the device.