One of only seven quagga skeletons in the world, at the Grant Museum

More of an agricultural nation, they have relied on their warriors only for defense and for survival in the endless wars of the plains.

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

`` There's only one thing to move him fast, and we have it right here in this very store ''.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

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.

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.

There might have been a pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps: only -- there was not.

Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

The part of the mind that preserves dates and events may remonstrate, `` It could have been like that for only a little while '' ; ;

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.

He would not have cared why it emerged, he only wanted to capture a memory to play with it again in his imagination and somehow to fix and hold in the story the disturbing emotions that accompanied the fantasy.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

Ortega's hope that modern psychology might yet bring forth a last flowering of the novel has only been partially fulfilled.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Malraux pretends, perhaps with a trifle too self-conscious a modesty, that his fragmentary work will accordingly `` appeal only to the curiosity of bibliophiles '' and `` to connoisseurs of what might have been ''.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

`` I'm mad '', and only wished he had been.

So, not only had he been here before, but it seemed he might well come again.

that aside from due notification of certain major events in their lives ( two marriages, two births, one divorce ), Christmas and Easter cards of the traditional sort had been the only thin link she had with them through the widowed years.

We've only been married four years, January ''.

We have only to compare the liberty and high standard of living we enjoy in this great country with the oppression and frugality of other nations to realize with humble gratitude that God's Providence has been with us since the very beginning of our country.

Similarly, on the regional channels many class 3, stations have been assigned either to operate daytime only or to operate nighttime with directional antennas and/or lower power.

Up until that time it had been possible to make cutters for making gear teeth, but they were good for only one sharpening.

* Monroe is the last president who had never been photographed and whose portraits are preserved today only on paintings.

On the cover of Spanish Vogue's December 2010 issue, she agreed to be photographed by fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh only if her pregnancy was not shown.

Bonobos are the only nonhuman animal to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex ( although a pair of western gorillas has been photographed performing face-to-face genital sex ,) tongue kissing, and oral sex.

He wrote in a memo to Colbert's agent that they had rebuilt several sets " because of her refusal to have the right side of her face photographed, on top of which we have to pay her not only a fabulous salary, but also give her two days off a month, which works out to $ 5000 every four weeks for doing absolutely nothing, and now she's demanding three .... Tell her there's a war on and we all have to make some sacrifices.

Patrick County is Virginia's Gateway to the Blue Ridge Parkway, and is only minutes from Mabry Mill, the most photographed destination on the parkway.

Somerset is also the only place in Pennsylvania to receive accumulations of snow in June before ( other places at most received a partial dusting ), and due to the arctic air, it was powdery snow that was photographed being swept off porches with brooms.

This design change meant only Plummer's front could be photographed during the first few days of filming while the makeup department created appliances to cover the back of his head.

Deren not only filmed, recorded and photographed many hours of vodoun ritual, but also participated in the ceremonies.

The three angled cameras photographed an image that was not only three times as wide as a standard film but covered 146 degrees of arc, close to the human field of vision, including peripheral vision.

Serial number XR222 was one of only three " flight ready " TSR-2s completed, photographed at the Supermarine Spitfire 60th Anniversary Airshow, Duxford, 1996.

* Polaris, the north star, is a triple star system in which the closer companion star is extremely close to the main star — so close that it was only known from its gravitational tug on Polaris A until it was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006.

In spite of being only 4 ' 11 " ( 1. 5 metres ), Zoe pursued a modelling career and became the most photographed and highly paid model of the time, appearing on the front of popular magazines such as Picturegoer.

While newsworthy events were photographed as early as the 1850s, printing presses could only publish from engravings until the 1880s.

Salomon is one of only two known persons to have photographed a session of the U. S. Supreme Court.

The dress had hand-sewn sequins on it, and it took so long to create that only the front of the dress was finished in time to be photographed.

Their surfaces could previously only be photographed by helicopter radar equipment.

Youths can be fingerprinted and photographed only when they have been charged with an indictable offence.

She vividly recalled being photographed — she had been photographed on only three occasions: in 1984 and during the search for her when a National Geographic producer took the identifying pictures that led to the reunion with Steve McCurry.

The smallest clathrin cage commonly photographed, called a mini-coat, has 12 pentagons and only two hexagons.

As Bolshevik forces approached Rostov he considered moving to Turkey, and prepared all the necessary paperwork ; his only extant picture comes from his Turkish visa, since he usually refused to be photographed.

There is only one record of the Brown Hawk-Owl in the western hemisphere, an individual photographed on St. Paul Island, Alaska, on August 27, 2007.

All the information, tracklistings and lyrics are printed the same way, and only two images are present, both photographed by Stefan DeBatselier and digitally altered by Chris Cunningham, using James ' face on children.

All Nyonyose masks are worn with thick costumes made of the fiber of the wild hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, In the old days only the northern Nyonyose in Yatenga and Kaya, and the eastern people around Boulsa allowed their masks to be photographed.