His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

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

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

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

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.

He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

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.

The only important differences from that standpoint, between the two Constitutions, lies in their Preambles.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

Boniface had to uphold the sacredness of the feudal contract at all costs, for it was only as suzerain of Sicily and of the Patrimony of Peter that he had any justification for his Italian wars, but in the English-Scottish-French triangle it was almost impossible for him to recognize the claims of any one of the contestants without seeming to invalidate those of the other two.

These shifts in alliance and allegiance not only increased the difficulties confronting the English embassy as a whole, but also directly involved the two Savoyards, Amadee and Othon.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

the Low Countries, where the Middle Ages were to last for another two centuries and die out only when Charles the Bold of Burgundy met his first defeat in the fields and forests below the walls of Grandson.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

Where only one club existed before, he says, two will flourish henceforth.

Since two of these could be trustees of the college, actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue.

These seem about the only two ways in which the `` unhappy incident '' can now be closed.

The Peiping Chinese were the only major silver seller in the world markets who stopped selling the metal on Monday morning, November 27, anticipating by two days the announcement of the U.S. Treasury that the pegged offering price will be removed.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

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.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

The automobile expenses are about the only vacationing cost they can't either eliminate or pare down drastically by camping along the way.

One looked forward to Mr. Remarque's ninth book if only because not even a reasonably good novel has yet been written grounded on automobile racing, as dramatic a sport as mankind has devised.

Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.

Maryland permits Sunday automobile sales only in the counties of Prince George's, Montgomery, and Howard ; similarly, Michigan restricts Sunday sales to only those counties with a population of less than 130, 000.

Some double-decker bridges only use one level for street traffic ; the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis reserves its lower level for automobile traffic and its upper level for pedestrian and bicycle traffic ( predominantly students at the University of Minnesota ).

In its industrial applications, Bakelite was particularly suitable for the emerging electrical and automobile industries because of its extraordinarily high resistance-not only to electricity, but to heat and chemical action.

In Cadillac Motor Car Co. v. Johnson, ( decided in 1915 by the federal appeals court for New York and several neighboring states ), the court held that a car owner could not recover for injuries from a defective wheel, when the automobile owner had a contract only with the automobile dealer and not with the manufacturer, even though there was " no question that the wheel was made of dead and ‘ dozy ‘ wood, quite insufficient for its purposes.

The Detroit River has only two automobile traffic crossings connecting the United States and Canada: the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit – Windsor Tunnel.

In Zinder, a 2009 local newspaper report claimed there were no more than " three to five " automobile taxis operating in a diffuse city which subsequently relies upon the only partially regulated motorcycle taxi sector.

-have facilities and plants in Spain today developing and producing vehicles and components, not only for the domestic market but also for export, with the contribution of the automobile industry in 2008 rising up to the second place with 17, 6 % out of the country's total exports.

He opens his business along a stagecoach line, only to see his dreams end with the appearance of the first automobile on the horizon.

Burl Barer reveals that an obscure early work, Daredevil, not only featured a heroic lead who shared " Saintly " traits ( down to driving the same brand of automobile ) but also shared his adventures with Inspector Claud Eustace Teal — a character later a regular in Saint books.

It is intended only for individuals whose limited mobility is dependent on a POV / scooter or automobile consistently throughout the week.

Some speakers therefore shorten the name " double u " into " dub " only ; for example, University of Washington, University of Wyoming and University of Western Australia are all known colloquially as " U Dub ", and the automobile company Volkswagen, abbreviated VW, is sometimes pronounced " V-Dub ".

* Street car refers to a customized enthusiast ’ s automobile outfitted to be legal for usage on public streets, as opposed to a race car or other vehicle with modifications that are only legal on a private track

After being injured in an automobile accident, had trouble writing, as she was only able to write backwards.

The first Peugeot automobile, a three-wheeled steam-powered car designed by Léon Serpollet, was produced in 1889 ; only four examples were made.

Since the purchase by Harman, QNX software has been designed into over 200 different automobile makes and models — not only in telematics systems but in infotainment and navigation units as well.

A Jew from distant parts of the Roman Empire would arrive by boat at the port of Jaffa ( now part of Tel Aviv ), where he or she would join a caravan for the three day trek to the Holy City ( a trip which only takes about an hour by automobile today ), and would then find lodgings in one of the many hotels or hostelries.

Pontiac also became the ninth North American automobile brand since 1987 to be phased out, after Merkur, Passport, Asüna, Geo, Plymouth, American Motors ( AMC ) ( renamed Eagle in 1988, only to be phased out a decade later ), and Oldsmobile.

Her official reason was that she wanted to visit her mother but unofficially she intended to generate publicity for her husband's invention ( which had only been used on short test drives before ), which succeeded as the automobile took off greatly afterwards and the Benz's family business eventually evolved into the present day Mercedes-Benz company.