Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Discworld gods" ¶ 42
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

one and time
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
By counting the number of stalls and urinals I attempted to form a loose estimate of how many men the hall would hold at one time.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
`` But one word at a time, O.K. ''??
Our old one blew down in a storm at the time of the pokeneu festival fifteen moons ago.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.
At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.
His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
But no single planetary problem ever required of Ptolemy more than six epicycles at one time.
These could be met only by considering the dynamical elements of several planets at one time.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.
There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??
In the arena of power Jews have at one time or another been somebody's ally ; ;
The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
Arriving just in time to stop men from turning their planet into a radioactive wasteland, the Overlords unite earth into one world in which justice, order, and benevolence prevail and ignorance, poverty, and fear have ceased to exist.
Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Sam, and Mr. Democrat, at one and the same time.

one and Fate
Several original treatises also survive, and include a work On Fate, in which he argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity ; and one On the Soul.
Players are to choose one or more Vision cards and base a backstory on them, and to have three Fortune cards representing a Virtue, Fault, and Fate ( a challenge they will face ).
At best this kind of transition had previously been dealt with by having the directions of travel of the actor in the two shots correspond on the screen, but in a film such as The Bank Burglar's Fate ( Jack Adolfi, 1914 ), one can see shot transitions in which a cut is made from an actor just leaving the frame, to a shot of him well inside the frame in an adjoining location, which have the positions and directions so well chosen that to the casual eye his movement appears quite continuous, and the real space and time ellipsis between the shots is concealed.
Stevenson has been referenced in television episodes of The Simpsons ( in the episodes " Lisa the Iconoclast " and " The Secret War of Lisa Simpson "), The Golden Girls, Happy Days ( in the January 28, 1975, episode " The Not Making of the President ") and Mystery Science Theater 3000s presentation of Manos: The Hands of Fate ( a Stevenson lookalike buys a car and one of the MST3K characters comments on it ).
But Pausanias writing in the 2nd century AD reported another early source ( now lost ): " The Lycian Olen, an earlier poet, who composed for the Delians, among other hymns, one to Eileithyia, styles her ' the clever spinner ', clearly identifying her with Fate, and makes her older than Cronus .” Being the youngest born to Gaia, Cronus was a Titan of the first generation and he was identified as the father of Zeus.
In an interview, Eaken mentioned hour-long meetings of the development team trying to come up with a better title than Fate of Atlantis, though the staff members could never think of one and always ended up with names such as " Indiana Jones Does Atlantis ".
Fate of Atlantis was met with critical acclaim, and it sold one million units across all platforms on which it was released.
All the Alec stories, with the exception of The Fate of the Artist, were published in one volume, Alec: The Years Have Pants by Top Shelf Productions in 2009 ( ISBN 978-1-60309-025-4 ).
Additionally, in one of his many drafts, in a footnote on Big Daddy's action in the third act, Williams deems Cat on a Hot Tin Roof a " play which says only one affirmative thing about ' Man's Fate ': that he has it still in his power not to squeal like a pig but to keep a tight mouth about it.
The cancellation of Man's Fate, according to Zinnemann, " marked the end of an era in picture making and the dawn of a new one, when lawyers and accountants began to replace showmen as head of the studios and when a handshake was a handshake no longer.
The first seven books each focus on one of seven supernatural " offices " ( Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil and Good ) in a fictional reality and history parallel to ours, with the exception that society has advanced both magic and modern technology.
* Manos: The Hands of Fate ( 1966 ), which is reputed to be one of the worst films ever made, was shot in and around El Paso.
The 2010 National Census data identified the City of Fate as the fastest growing city in the state of Texas for the past decade, and one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.
There are no indications of dance music, accompanying instrumental figures or the like, except in three instances: Lucy's " Is Then His Fate Decree'd Sir " – one measure of descending scale marked " Viol.
He is plucked from one world to another by the forces of Fate, where he assumes the identity of someone, frequently that of a long-dead champion.
Sasaki Kojiro also appeared as one of the servants in the Fate / Stay Night anime and visual novel of 2006 and played the role of the Assassin Servant.
Fate would soon provide him with one.
Fate dealt with him unfairly when he tried to put into practice his bold and generous ideas to improve the lot of man, or when he was mistaken at one time for an agent of the Prince of Wales and at another for a tramp.
Doctor Fate summoned a being known as the Oracle, who informed them of the Iron Hand's last defeat, which cost the life of one of the Seven Soldiers of Victory.
The special agents, led by another familiar figure, steal it and its vaccine, but end up roughed up and detained in a distant manor where one of the mad professor's underlings is studying the Book of Fate.
Her final tokusatsu role was Magiel, Queen of the Sky Saints in Mahou Sentai Magiranger, which incidentally was her one of few and final non-villainous roles and her first female role as such since Bellbara in Go-nen San-kumi Mahō-gumi ( In her memory, the producers of Power Rangers: Mystic Force used footage of Soga as Magiel in the two-part final episode of Mystic Force, “ Mystic Fate .”).
Fate fixates on musician Jack Boniface one night as he plays his saxophone for a packed jazz bar deep in the heart of New Or-leans.
* Mint, one of the protagonists in the video game Threads of Fate
Fate takes a turn for the worse as Lecce falls in love with Maria and the Seattle police suspect him as one of Montgomery's allies.

0.162 seconds.