Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

It did not depend on the AIM client and could be used with only an AIM screenname via the WebConnect feature or a dedicated SIP device.

An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers are only linear within limits.

This would only have been possible by the use of some kind of buoyancy device: Ammianus Marcellinus mentions that the Cornuti regiment swam across a river floating on their shields " as on a canoe " ( 357 ).

The North American agencies will only require these standards for new device submissions, while the EU will take the more severe approach of requiring all applicable devices being placed on the market to consider the home healthcare standard.

The only mechanical device that existed for numerical computation at the beginning of human history was the abacus, invented in Sumeria circa 2500 BC.

The concept is similar to the LGH device originally only fired from a rifle, as a plastic retrieval line is attached.

When the only allowed program memory is ROM, the device is known as a microcontroller.

This allowed a new device to be added easily, generally only requiring plugging a hardware interface board into the backplane, and then installing software that read and wrote to the mapped memory to control it.

Using this device, he confirmed that an invisible current flowed from the glowing filament through the vacuum to the metal plate, but only when the plate was connected to the positive supply.

In optics, an equivalent device for the diode but with laser light would be the Optical isolator, also known as an Optical Diode, that allows light to only pass in one direction.

Martin Wiberg improved Scheutz's construction but used his device only for producing and publishing printed logarithmic tables.

A portable device radiates an average of about 10 mW during a call as it is only using one of 24 time slots to transmit.

The advantage of loadable device drivers is that they can be loaded only when necessary and then unloaded, thus saving kernel memory.

Although the Fortune Deck resembles ( and can be used as ) a fortune-telling device, Everway treats the Deck only as a storytelling device and an element of the fictional setting.

A multiplier ( which is a nonlinear device ) will generate ideally only the sum and difference frequencies, whereas an arbitrary nonlinear block would generate also signals at e. g. 2 · f < sub > 1 </ sub >- 3 · f < sub > 2 </ sub >, etc.

* Historically, valve amplifiers often used a class-A power amplifier simply because valves are large and expensive ; many class-A designs use only a single device.

It should be noted that encrypting at the time of creation only adds security if the encryption device itself has not been tampered with.

It is a unipolar device, depending only upon majority current flow.

During the High Middle Ages flags came to be used primarily as a heraldic device in battle, allowing more easily to identify a knight than only from the heraldic device painted on the shield.

This means that the user only has protection for a limited time, and then he must either replace the filter device in the mask, or use a new mask.

This comprised not only the formula of its composition, but also the specialized dromons, the device used to prepare the substance by heating and pressurizing it, the siphon projecting it, and the special training of the siphōnarioi who used it.

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

His open face seemed to promise a sort of innocence, until one looked into his eyes, which had no warmth in them but only alert intelligence.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

The only evidence of occupation came from the chimney, which was belching out thick smoke.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.

As for states' rights, they have never counted in the thinking of my liberal friends except as irritations of a minor and immoral nature which exist now only as anachronisms.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

only historical evolution will determine which ): an abrupt change.

The Constitution of the Southern `` Confederation '' differed from that of the Federal Union only in two important respects: It openly, defiantly, recognized slavery -- an institution which the Southerners of 1787, even though they continued it, found so impossible to reconcile with freedom that they carefully avoided mentioning the word in the Federal Constitution.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.