I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

This contribution of the neural crest to the great artery smooth muscle is unusual as most smooth muscle is derived from mesoderm.

One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes, he is usually described as a giant as well as a lumberjack of unusual skill, and is often accompanied in stories by his animal companion, Babe the Blue Ox.

He was one of the most successful early etchers, and was unusual for his generation of German printmakers in doing no book illustrations.

One of the most unusual buses ever built was a prop for Paramount Productions in 1935 for a movie set.

Canada is unusual among developed countries in the importance of the primary sector, with the logging and oil industries being two of Canada's most important.

In a fish out of water comedy film, the main character or character finds himself in an unusual environment, which drives most of the humour.

McCarry's most unusual book in the series, also concerning the Christopher family, is Bride of the Wilderness.

This unusual side-effect is usually not noticed by most people, and quickly disappears after the person stops taking carbamazepine.

Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.

Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.

It is most unusual for a medium to have more than one primary channel " open " and under control.

One of the most unusual peripherals produced for the PDP-10 was the DECtape.

In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.

The w-circumflex and the y-circumflex are among the most commonly accented characters in Welsh, but unusual in languages generally, and were until recently very hard to obtain in word-processed and HTML documents.

Among the various Hachijō-daiko rhythms, perhaps the most unusual is the intoxicating honbataki rhythm which is most often sung to by one of the two drummers.

Along with many other members of a group of unusual species collectively called the " Australian megafauna ", it existed from approximately 1. 6 million years ago until extinction some 46, 000 years ago ( through most of the Pleistocene epoch ).

This behavior is unusual to most lanthanides, which almost exclusively form compounds with an oxidation state of + 3.

Authorities disagree on the exact definition of fractal, but most usually elaborate on the basic ideas of self-similarity and an unusual relationship with the space a fractal is embedded in.

A most unusual use of granite was in the construction of the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England, in 1820.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

As a result, most people don't have more than a vague idea what folklore actually is ; ;

There are brain-wracking searches for the right word, the best phrase, the most helpful idea.

The D Minor Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2, introduced by dynamically shaped arpeggios, was most engaging in its moments of quasi-recitative -- single lines in which the fingers seemed to be feeling their way toward the idea to come.

The Soviet Union and the United States were the most attracted to the idea of providing this capability to traditionally light airborne forces.

These represent the most intellectual type of chamber-music of their period, and it is to be regretted that they have remained almost entirely in manuscript, since a careful study of them is indispensable to anyone who wishes to form an adequate idea of Scarlatti's development.

Society places a lot of importance on the idea of “ brain death ” because most “ industrialized countries have equated this with death of the individual ”.

Eventually, most paleontologists began to accept the idea that the mass extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous were largely or at least partly due to a massive Earth impact.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

The idea that liberalism comes in two forms assumes that the most fundamental question facing mankind is how much government intervenes into the economy ...

The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses.

The most common approach to turn this intuitive idea into a precise definition uses limits, but there are other methods, such as non-standard analysis.

In the early 1980s, Mimer introduced transaction handling for high robustness in applications, an idea that was subsequently implemented on most other DBMS.

Sacrificing one's short-term self-interest to maximize one's long-term self-interest is one form of " rational self-interest " which is the idea behind most philosophers ' advocacy of ethical egoism.

He adumbrated a school of thought that is known as Critical Rationalism with a central tenet being the rejection of the idea that knowledge can ever be justified in the strong form that is sought by most schools of thought.

The idea of the Erdős number was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of Erdős, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.

Jonathan Kozol, a former public school teacher and prominent public school reform thinker has called vouchers the " single worst, most dangerous idea to have entered education discourse in my adult life.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

The opening instrumental " Fire On High ", with its mix of strings and blazing acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as background music on CBS Sports Spectacular montages, though most viewers had no idea of the song's origins.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

Although the basic idea is recursive, most traditional implementations rearrange the algorithm to avoid explicit recursion.

The large number of surviving manuscripts of The Reckoning of Time, copied to meet the Carolingian requirement that all priests should study the computus, indicates that many, if not most, priests were exposed to the idea of the sphericity of the Earth.