They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.

Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood ( e. g. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi, " Merdre!

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Goliath eventually stopped close to the bow of Conquérant, opening fire on the new opponent and using the unengaged starboard guns to exchange occasional shots with the frigate Sérieuse and bomb vessel Hercule which were anchored inshore of the battle line.

To support the centre, Captain Thompson of Leander abandoned the futile efforts to drag the stranded Culloden off the shoal and sailed down the embattled French line, entering the gap created by the drifting Peuple Souverain and opening a fierce raking fire on Franklin and Orient.

Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter:

Each madrāšâ had its qālâ (), a traditional tune identified by its opening line.

He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially " the great unwashed ", " pursuit of the almighty dollar ", " the pen is mightier than the sword ", as well as the famous opening line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

Written a year after Paul Clifford, it appears to be Poe's deliberate mocking of Lord Lytton's opening line.

The start of the 20th century also saw the opening of a short lived railway station on the Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly Station ( then Amiens Street ).

On opening night, he experienced stage fright and stumbled over his line.

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

In 2007, the Laotian Ministry of Transportation entered into discussion with Vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from Thakhek in Laos through the Mu Gia Pass to Tan Ap Railway Station in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province, on the North – South Railway.

This concurs with the name of the hound mentioned in an " Ossianic Ballad ," sometimes referred to by its opening line " Dám Thrír Táncatair Ille ( They came here as a band of three )".

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

Two years later, in 1857, the European and North American Railway opened its line from Moncton to nearby Shediac ; this was followed by a line from Moncton to Saint John opening in 1859.

* 1996 Gangaw – Natchaung 110 · 8 Linked to isolated northern section of Kalay line ; opening ceremony February 6

The Passover Seder meal is full of symbols of salvation, including the opening of the door for Elijah and the closing line, “ Next year in Jerusalem ,” but the use of matzah is the oldest symbol of salvation in the Seder.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

The railway first came to Berlin in 1838, with the opening of the Potsdamer Bahnhof, terminus of a 26 km line linking the city with Potsdam, opened throughout by 29 October ( in 1848 the line would be extended to Magdeburg and beyond ).

Play with the ' Reversi ' opening, wherein disks of one color line up parallel to those of the other in the center 4 squares, may still be found among enthusiasts in some places.

Most of the railways were developed during the British colonial period, with the first line from Colombo to Kandy opening on 26 April 1867.

In the earlier episodes, as mentioned in the show's opening title, Hercules ' main nemesis is his evil stepmother Hera, the powerful queen of the gods, who seeks to destroy Hercules using various monsters, because he is a reminder of her husband Zeus ' infidelity.

The opening of the poem asserts the dependence of all things upon Zeus.

She says, " Come children of Zeus ", as Phibes and Victoria ascend to the heavens through an opening in the mountain top.

Zeus possesses the ability to manipulate vast amounts of cosmic and mystical energy for a variety of purposes, including temporary augmentation of his superhuman physical abilities, firing powerful bolts of electrical force energy, changing his shape and size at will, opening and closing interdimensional apertures, sending himself and others through these dimensions, creating mountains, granting superhuman abilities and properties to living beings or inanimate objects, and the power to generate great amounts of electrical energy and discharge it as lightning bolts.

In May 2012, it was announced that 3. 7 km < sup > 2 </ sup > of Stanley Common ( which lies between the Stanley – Mount Pleasant road and the shoreline ) was made safe and had been opened to the public, opening up a three kilometer stretch of coastline and a further two kilometres of shoreline along Mullet's Creek.

The Plateau Central lies between the Massif du Nord and the Montagnes Noires, and the Plaine de l ' Artibonite lies between the Montagnes Noires and the Chaîne des Matheux, opening westward toward the Gulf of Gonâve, the largest gulf of the Antilles.

A smaller opening, the spiracle, lies in the back of the first gill slit.

In egg-laying species, whose gonoduct is uniformly constructed, the genital opening lies at the tip of a long egg-laying apparatus, the ovipositor.

In the Stylopidia, the female has its anterior region extruding out of the host body and the male mates by rupturing the female's brood canal opening, which lies between the head and prothorax.

Frequent earthquakes produced by the fact that Greece lies at the intersection of three separate tectonic plates seem to have been responsible for the observed cracking of the limestone, and the opening up of new channels by which hydrocarbons enter the flowing waters of the Kassotis.

The genitalia are internal and the genital opening lies between the eleventh segment and the telson of the adult.

Ceos lies only some fifteen miles south-east of Attica, whither Simonides was drawn, about the age of thirty, by the lure of opportunities opening up at the court of the tyrant Hipparchus, a patron of the arts.

In the Middle Ages Antium was deserted in favour of Nettuno: at the end of the 17th century Innocent XII and Clement XI restored the harbour, not on the old site but to the east of it, with the opening to the east, a mistake which leads to its being frequently silted up ; it has a depth of about 5 m. The sea is encroaching slightly at Anzio, but some kilometres farther north-west the old Roman coast-line now lies slightly inland ( see Tiber ).

The vomer bone lies below and to the back ( posteroinferiorly ), and partially forms the choanal opening into the nasopharynx, ( the upper portion of the pharynx that is continuous with the nasal passages ).

The basioccipital lies in front of the opening, the two exoccipitals lie to either side, and the larger supraoccipital lies to the posterior, and forms at least part of the rear of the cranium.

In the living tuatara, and many fossil species, a small opening, the parietal foramen, lies between the two parietal bones.

The bay opens on Rhode Island Sound — Block Island lies less than 20 miles ( 32 km ) southwest of its opening — and the Atlantic Ocean.

It is globular in form and lies in the recessus sphæricus near the opening of the scala vestibuli of the cochlea.

The penis lies inside a cavity, and can be everted through an opening on the posterior underside of the animal.

The first station ever to open in Footscray opened on this line on the opening day of service ; it was not, however, where the current Footscray station lies, rather it was situated on Napier Street.

Tagesthemen < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s market share sank with the opening of media competition in Germany ; nevertheless, it still lies today at about 12 %— this amounts to about 2. 5 million viewers per broadcast.

The castle lies on an elevation to the east of a small valley opening to the sea between precipitous sea cliffs to both east and west.

There is a shallow opening around 6 m deep, known as ' the saddle ', opening out to the sea, and a 26 m long tunnel, known as the arch, the top of which lies at a depth of 56 m. The hole itself and the surrounding area has an abundance of coral and reef fish.

The sarcophagus in the midst of the chamber is made of finest alabaster and shows an unusual feature: its opening lies at the front side and is sealed by a sliding door, which was still plastered with mortar when the sarcophagus was found.

The Cricket = “ spiders ” would come with news for The Cricket to the barber shop in the first hour or so of opening ; existed between 1899 and 1905 ; took in and published all the information Buddy could find ; it respected stray facts, maniac theories, and well-told lies ; studied broken marriages, gossip about jazzmen, and a servant ’ s memoirs ; contained excessive reference to death