A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

-- Billy Gardner's line double, which just eluded the diving Minnie Minoso in left field, drove in Jim Lemon with the winning run with two out in the last of the ninth to give the Minnesota Twins a 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Monday.

And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.

The last night I had called, but the line was always busy and it reassured me.

This algorithm can easily be adapted to compute the variance of a finite population: simply divide by n instead of n − 1 on the last line.

Alboin's death deprived the Lombards of the only leader who could have kept the newborn Germanic entity together, the last in the line of hero-kings who had led the Lombards through their migrations from the vale of the Elbe to Italy.

In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.

Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

One variation shortens the second line and lengthens the last, to form a near-rhyme between N and zed:

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

A prime example of such a claim is the translation of the last line Job speaks ( 42: 6 ), which is extremely problematic in the Hebrew.

This is not the first instance of this tactic — the women of the Cimbri, in the Battle of Vercellae against Gaius Marius, were stationed in a line of wagons and acted as a last line of defence.

It is therefore probable that this arrangement was made, possibly at the last moment, so that the Athenian line was as long as the Persian line, and would not therefore be outflanked.

Cardozo continues to adhere to the original principle of Winterbottom, that " absurd and outrageous consequences " must be avoided, and he does so by drawing a new line in the last sentence quoted above: " There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable.

A third line is planned to connect Phnom Penh with Vietnam, the last missing link of the planned rail corridor between Singapore and the city of Kunming, China.

It is positioned to be the last line of defence should the enemy breach the other components of the fortification system.

So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??

) In the second instance, Banks is preparing for an Easter service and attempts to show off his prowess by singing the last two lines of the chorus ; Smith jokingly replies with his own version, in which he makes a joke about Carlton's height.

The original lyrics authored by Wybicki were a poem consisting of six stanzas and a chorus repeated after all but last stanzas, all following an ABAB rhyme scheme.

In the town of Rederring, in Cornwall, a chorus of professional bridesmaids frets that there have been no weddings for the last six months.

These sections are usually alternating verse and chorus, often with a bridge before the last chorus.

As such, " A partridge in a pear tree " is sung as the last line of each chorus.

This influence can also be seen in many of his works, including the operas Wat Tyler ( 1948 – 50 ) and Men of Blackmoor ( 1954 – 55 ), and his piano concerto which has a communist text declaimed by a male chorus in the last movement.

May overdubbed some guitar sections, initially subtle, but building to a ' solo ' played simultaneously with the last chorus.

Rameau's musical works may be divided into four distinct groups, which differ greatly in importance: a few cantatas ; a few motets for large chorus ; some pieces for solo harpsichord or harpsichord accompanied by other instruments ; and, finally, his works for the stage, to which he dedicated the last thirty years of his career almost exclusively.

In the film, the four Beatles are first seen by themselves, performing the initial chorus and verses, and then are joined by the audience who appear as the last chorus concludes and coda begins ; the audience sings and claps along with the Beatles through the song's conclusion.

The chorus is then repeated in a higher key ; at the end, the last line is repeated.

* The last chorus of The Age of Pampurius from Apocalypse Dudes has a reference to Cheap Trick's song Clock Strikes Ten, itself a reference to Westminster Quarters.

The Nashville Tuning attempts to emulate the chorus, or jangle-like quality of the 12-string guitar on a 6-string guitar by tuning the last 4 strings an octave higher.

These are characterized by one strong pull per chorus, typically on the last word, as in " Way, haul away, haul away " Joe "'!

The arranger's chorus is generally not the first or the last chorus of a jazz performance.

In jazz, a shout chorus is usually the last chorus of a Big Band arrangement, and is characterized by being the most energetic, lively, and exciting and by containing the musical climax of the piece.

In 1980, the noted Cornish folk singer Brenda Wootton, wrote and recorded the song " James Ruse " which uses as the chorus the last four lines of the tombstone inscription.

" Who's That Girl " employs this effect on the last chorus where three or four different vocal hooks are intertwined.

During Whitesnake's performance of their encore " Still of the Night ", Joey Tempest joined David Coverdale on stage for the last chorus.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

as Piepsam says to the crowd in his last moments: `` His justice is not of this world ''.

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

but when the bird is found at last, it turns out to be a fake.

The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

Actually it amounts to $1,250,000 above what the institution already is receiving, considering the additional half-million dollars Gov. Vandiver allocated last year from the state surplus.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.