The account of Lt. Robert S. Williamson of the vicinity made in 1853, by his railroad survey expedition report makes no mention of any habitations on the east side of the pass, only that a good wagon road passed through it.

The constant threat of the sea overcoming their habitations forced Eiderstedt to a special form of self-administration at a very early stage as diking was only possible through strong cooperation.

Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.

Atonement, if atonement were possible, could only be made at that sacred, sacrificial basin.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

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.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

In the jungle, birds were mute, while insects preserved only the monotony of living.

Jack knew of course that the tale to be unfolded would involve a girl and probably be dirty, because girls were Charles' only apparent interest.

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.

It was Dandy Brandon, clad only in a bloody loincloth, emaciated and quaking as if the devil were breathing hard on him.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals might not be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose-tea to drink ; ;

it was mud in wet weather and dust, ankle-deep, in dry, and could be crossed only at the corner where there were stepping stones.

After only eighteen years of non-interference, there were already indications of melioration, though `` in a slight degree '', to be sure.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

The formal displacement of the geocentric principle far from being Copernicus' primary concern, was introduced only to resolve what seemed to him intolerable in orthodox astronomy, namely, the ' unphysical ' triplication of centric reference-points: one center from which the planet's distances were calculated, another around which planetary velocities were computed, and still a third center ( the earth ) from which the observations originated.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

It is also important to realize that many girls are born without a hymen or at most only a tiny trace of one ; ;

Calloused fingers, caressed only by the smoothness of polished rosaries, had swayed excitedly beneath puckered chins where tiny black hairs sprouted, never to be tweezed away.

A farm near Racine, Wisconsin, is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas.

The Mach 2 Tu-160 ' Blackjack ' was built only in tiny numbers, leaving the 1950s Tupolev Tu-16 and Tu-95 ' Bear ' heavy bombers to continue being used into the 21st century.

But the sponsorship deal was terminated before it commenced after it was revealed that British steel only made up a tiny fraction of steel used in construction of the stadium-the bulk of the steel had been imported from Germany.

For instance, nanotubes form only a tiny portion of the material ( s ) in ( primarily carbon fiber ) baseball bats, golf clubs, or car parts.

While known for most elements, either or both of these measurements is still undetermined for some of the radioactive elements available in only tiny quantities.

As a result, the primordial abundance of atoms ( or ions ) consisted of roughly 75 % < sup > 1 </ sup > H, 25 % < sup > 4 </ sup > He, and 0. 01 % deuterium, with only tiny traces of lithium, beryllium, and perhaps boron.

For example, in AC power lines, the waves of electromagnetic energy propagate through the space between the wires, moving from a source to a distant load, even though the electrons in the wires only move back and forth over a tiny distance.

In the Geissler tubes, there was so much air that the electrons could only travel a tiny distance before colliding with an atom.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

Cotton processing was tiny: in 1701 only of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to.

The same species, when growing in a half-shady damp location can develop into a flowering bush half as tall as a person, but when growing in a very dry location will only grow into a thin little plant just higher than the ankles, with tiny flowers and a few miniature leaves.

While there are alleged non-physical differences between men and women, major reviews of the academic literature on gender difference find only a tiny minority of characteristics where there are consistent psychological differences between men and women, and these relate directly to experiences grounded in biological difference.

Visitors to the site in December 1954 reported being deeply shocked by the conditions and the constant screams from the cell-block still in use for convicts who had gone insane and which had only tiny ventilation slots at the tops of the walls under the roof.

that approximately 5 % of all granites will be of concern, with the caveat that only a tiny percentage of the tens of thousands of granite slabs have been tested.

In 1993 only about 9 to 13 percent of the Honduran labor force was engaged in the country's tiny manufacturing sector — one of the smallest in Central America.

Other common law legal jurisdictions use jury trials only in a very select class of cases that make up a tiny share of the overall civil docket ( e. g. defamation suits in England and Wales ), while true civil jury trials are almost entirely absent elsewhere in the world.

Because of its relatively short half-life, < sup > 53 </ sup > Mn occurs only in tiny amounts due to the action of cosmic rays on iron in rocks.

Though 68010 had a " loop mode ", which sped loops through what was effectively a tiny instruction cache, it had only two memory location and was thus little used.

Since it has only a tiny fraction of its parent's radius ( and therefore its moment of inertia is sharply reduced ), a neutron star is formed with very high rotation speed, and then gradually slows down.

Mammalian ova contain only a tiny amount of the nutritive yolk, for nourishing the embryo in the early stages of its development only.

Due to the worldwide demand for this staple food, pasta is now largely mass-produced in factories and only a tiny proportion is crafted by hand.