Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

Sighting a line from the bridge to a small field directly to the side, I pitched the tent that evening on the stateless `` line '', digging a small trench around it as best I could with a toy spade donated by a neighborhood child.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

I, frankly, can't draw a straight line.

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

Move from the line or I will settle the whip on you.

The earth was a little heavy and I had to stop once and clean the plowshares because they were not scouring properly, and I did not look back towards the place until I had turned the corner and was plowing across the upper line of the large field, a long way from where I had stopped because of the snake.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Tiberius took Agrippina by her hand and quoted the Greek line: “ And if you are not queen, my dear, have I then you wrong ?”

In addition to James II himself ( who died a few months after the act received the royal assent ) and his Catholic children Prince James and Princess Louisa, the act also excluded the descendents of James ' sister Henrietta, the youngest daughter of Charles I. Henrietta's daughter Anne was then the Queen of Sardinia and a Catholic ; the Jacobite heirs of today are descended from her line.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

Otherwise, we go on endlessly trying to draw the line, color and other, as to which kind of man we wish to see dominate.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

Constance was a missionary bishopric in newly converted lands, and did not look back on late Roman church history ( unlike the Raetian bishopric of Chur, established 451 ) and Basel, which was an episcopal seat from 740, and which continued the line of Bishops of Augusta Raurica, see Bishop of Basel.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

An alternating magnetic field is applied at the atomizer ( graphite furnace ) to split the absorption line into three components, the π component, which remains at the same position as the original absorption line, and two σ components, which are moved to higher and lower wavelengths, respectively ( see Zeeman Effect ).

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

But these are physical representations of the corresponding mathematical entities ; the line and the curve are idealized concepts whose width is 0 ( see Line ).

A common adaptive method is recursive subdivision, in which a curve's control points are checked to see if the curve approximates a line segment to within a small tolerance.

which has the intuitive interpretation ( see Figure 1 ) that the tangent line to f at a gives the best linear approximation

If light consisted strictly of ordinary or classical particles, and these particles were fired in a straight line through a slit and allowed to strike a screen on the other side, we would expect to see a pattern corresponding to the size and shape of the slit.

It tends towards a line segment ( see below ) if the two foci remain a finite distance apart and a parabola if one focus is kept fixed as the other is allowed to move arbitrarily far away.

Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees ( genus Pan ) split off from the line leading to the humans ; human DNA is approximately 98. 4 % identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms ( see human evolutionary genetics ).

As the firemen toss the books from the woman's upstairs bedroom down to the living room floor and spray the pile with kerosene, Montag accidentally reads a line in one of her books and hides it away before any of his coworkers can see.

Despite scalpers selling tickets at 1000 lire, crowds queued in line for hours to see an “ immoral movie ” before the censors banned it.

* In April 2005, an agreement was signed to build a railway from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan ( see Kars Baku Tbilisi railway line ) probably using ( Standard gauge ) supposedly so that it can eventually link with China.

Following the Battle of Largs, the 13th century would see the Norse settlement and overlordship of Scotland end, as well as the line of David I, with the death of Alexander III.

The population of Frobisher Bay increased rapidly during the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW line, a system of radar stations, see North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )) in the mid-1950s.

He gratefully accepted a plaque honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of his MLB debut, but also commented, " I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and more proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a black face managing in baseball.

The 1850s and 1860s also mark the line between what some scholars see as idealistic, Hegelian young Marx from the more scientifically-minded mature Marx writings of the later period.

* For a time line of martial arts historical milestones, see Martial arts timeline

An unfortunate side effect of this coupled with the early need to write minimalist code was that MUMPS programmers routinely did not comment code and used extensive abbreviations, meaning that even an expert MUMPS programmer could not just skim through a page of code to see its function but would have to analyze it line by line.

Since there is no heir to inherit Elimelech's land, levirate custom required a close relative ( usually the dead man's brother ) to marry the widow of the deceased in order to continue his family line ( Deuteronomy 25: 5 – 10 ).

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

With Brueys dead and his van and centre defeated, the rear division of the French fleet attempted to break out of the bay, but ultimately only two ships of the line and two frigates escaped, from a total of 17 ships engaged.

In rugby league, drop kicks are mandatory to restart play from the goal line ( called a goal line drop-out ) after the defending team is tackled or knocks on in the in-goal area or the defending team causes the ball to go dead or into touch-in-goal.

Drop kicks are also mandatory to restart play from the 20 metre line after an unsuccessful penalty goal attempt goes dead or into touch-in-goal and to score a drop goal ( sometimes known as a field goal ) in open play, which is worth one point.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line " Now that's what I call a dead parrot "; since it occurs after the part of the sketch where Cleese bashes the dead bird on the counter, it's possible a part of the prop broke off.

If only one line of position is available, this may be evaluated against the dead reckoning position to establish an estimated position.

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

USC Literature Professor Henry Jenkins cited Dr. McCoy's " He's dead, Jim " line as an example of fans actively participating in the creation of an underground culture in which they derive pleasure by repeating memorable lines as part of constructing new mythologies and alternative social communities.

After the fourth move, most of the spots are dead – they have three lines attached to them, so they cannot be used as endpoints for a new line.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Doctor stated that the telephone is not connected to a telephone line, and in Logopolis ( 1981 ), the Master materialised his TARDIS around a normal police box while a police officer was using the telephone, causing the line to go dead.

Theodoric died in 526 and was succeeded by his young grandson Athalaric under the authority of his daughter Amalasunta, but by 535 both were dead and Theodoric's line was represented only by Amalasuntha's daughter Matasuntha.

Ball agreed, but only if the scene could retain a line of Ricky's where he reflects on having once seen a dead homeless woman: " When you see something like that, it's like God is looking right at you, just for a second.

With William childless and Gloucester dead, Anne was the only individual remaining in the line of succession established by the Bill of Rights 1689.

Certain species form communities called microatolls, which are colonies whose top is dead and mostly above the water line, but whose perimeter is mostly submerged and alive.

After the war, the remains of most of the war dead were moved from former POW camps, burial grounds and lone graves along the rail line to official war cemeteries.

Joe Rhodes of TV Guide considered Grampa's most memorable line to be " If I'm not back at the home by nine, they declare me legally dead and collect my insurance.

Sideboards are not a recognized part of the game — although an out-of-play line ( or " dead boule line ") is.