His hands, which had been as quick as a pair of fluttering birds, were now neither active nor really relaxed.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

The White Sox had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the sixth on a pair of pop fly hits -- a triple by Roy Sievers and single by Camilo Carreon -- a walk and a sacrifice fly.

Volta had determined that the most effective pair of dissimilar metals to produce electricity was zinc and silver.

He had been reduced to near-poverty and it is said that to save money his wife carried out an ill-advised operation using a pair of scissors.

After Ray Wallace's death, his children came forward with a pair of wooden feet, which they said their father had used to fake the Bigfoot tracks in 1958.

In January 1923 the pair announced their engagement ; by July they had separated, leading to speculation that the relationship was a publicity stunt.

As principal owners, the pair moved the club from the West Side Grounds to the much newer Weeghman Park, which had been constructed for the Whales only two years earlier.

After a rough start, which included a brawl between Michael Barrett and Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs overcame the Milwaukee Brewers, who had led the division for most of the season, with winning streaks in June and July, coupled with a pair of dramatic, late-inning wins against the Reds, and ultimately clinched the NL Central with a record of 85 – 77.

The pair had unexpected success in their first season finishing just outside the play-offs, and 1992 – 93 began promisingly and Charlton looked good bets for promotion in the new Division One ( the new name of the old Second Division following the formation of the Premier League ).

Because chip packaging was not available with enough pins, the F8 was instead fabricated as a pair of chips that had to be used together to form a complete CPU.

* Andy Warhol had a pair of dachshunds, Archie and Amos, whom he depicted in his paintings and mentioned frequently in his diaries.

These engines had two extra cylinders for forced induction, so they really appeared like V6 engines but without spark plugs on the front cylinder pair.

Police initially suspected the boys had been raped ; however, later expert testimony disputed this finding despite trace amounts of sperm DNA found on a pair of pants recovered from the scene.

He eventually got funding in 1983 to write a script about John and Jim Pardue, a pair of Missouri bank robbers who had killed their father and grandmother and robbed five banks.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

In 1973 the number theorist Hugh Montgomery was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study and had just made his pair correlation conjecture concerning the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

During that journey the pair met Mateli Kuivalatar in the small border town of Ilomantsi.

They moved to an estate where in a pub they met Harry Enfield, a neighbour with a stage act, and after he gained a place on Channel 4's Saturday Live, the pair were invited to write for him.

The design is essentially a multi-stage radial turbine ( or pair of ' nested ' turbine rotors ) offering great efficiency, four times as large heat drop per stage as in the reaction ( Parsons ) turbine, extremely compact design and the type met particular success in backpressure power plants.

Pirithous took up his arms and the pair met to do battle, but were so impressed with each other they took an oath of friendship and joined the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

The pair met in Melbourne, before they moved to the Australian capital in 1969.

The rivalry gained significant media attention during 1995 when the pair met three times, with Carey being held to a combined total of just 7 marks, 35 disposals and 2 goals.

At Marquette Academy he met future actor Pat O ' Brien, and the pair began attending plays together, awakening Tracy's interest in the theatre.

On 27 June, she met Charles for the first time, and the pair were privately married between 5am and 6am on 3 July, in the house of a wealthy merchant of Damme.

While neither Lewis or Angus met the Guinness World Records criteria, each completed continuous human powered journeys around the planet, although they did not cross a pair of antipodes or travel the distance of the Tropic of Cancer.

The pair met and shared ideas.

The pair feel they have met before.

This version is not properly compatible with the Greek one: the Trojan War had ended only eight years earlier, and Odysseus only met Circe a couple of months later, so any son of the pair could only be seven years old, whereas the Roman Latinus had an adult daughter by this time.

Pirithous took up arms and the pair met, then became so impressed by each other they took an oath of friendship.

The pair became a trio when Dallin met Fahey while studying fashion journalism in London.

At age 12, Hazel met Billy " Bass " Nelson, and the pair quickly became close friends and began performing, soon adding drummer Harvey McGee to the mix.

Afterwards the pair continued to trade insults, but by the time they met in a rematch, neither was a champion ; Frazier had lost his title to George Foreman and Ali had recently been beaten by Ken Norton.

He met his lover, Mabel Dodge, in Naples, and the pair made its way to Paris.

With the band in limbo, Pop met David Bowie in September 1971, and the pair became good friends.

She met with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping and the pair spoke for 35 minutes over lunch.

She met fellow writer Ida Baker ( also known as Lesley Moore ), a South African, at the college, and the pair became lifelong friends.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Shellshock said that the track known as " Starry Eyed Surprise " was created after the pair met at a Crazy Town show.

The origins of the band date back to the summer of 1997 when Jordan Pundik ( vocals ) had met Stephen Klein ( guitars ) at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the pair began writing music together.

" She met Kingsley O ' Keke, 26, during her stay but the pair broke up after a six-week romance.

The pair moved back to New York, where they met Brien Hopkins ( keyboards, bass, guitar & vocals ) who joined to form a multi-instrumental trio, without a drummer or percussionist.