They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.

and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.

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

He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.

while projecting from beneath the couch were a pair of feet which, as Fate would have it, belonged to District Attorney Welch.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

Three were doubles, Brooks Robinson getting a pair and Marv Breeding one.

The Flock added a pair of tallies in the third on three straight hits after two were out.

Secret Grand Jury indictments were returned against the pair last week, Detective Murray Logan reported.

The salamanders left odour marks around their territories which averaged in size and were sometimes inhabited by a male and female pair.

The last wicket pair of George Hirst and Rhodes were left with 15 runs to get, and duly got them.

In the case of Gautama Buddha the pair of disciples were Sariputta and Mahamoggallana and the attendant Ānanda.

At above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the Lunar Module of any other Apollo mission.

The wheels were cast as a one-piece item in a pair with their axle.

Two dusky stable hands were leading a pair of thoroughbred around the " cooling rings " of adjoining stables at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and engaging in desultory conversation.

Soldiers claimed the pair were armed, which was denied by local people, and moderate nationalists including John Hume and Gerry Fitt walked out of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in protest.

The concept of using a pair of axes was introduced in later work by commentators who were trying to clarify the ideas contained in Descartes ' La Géométrie.

The bodies of the pair were draped around his Rod, which with the wings created the caduceus symbolic of the god.

Traditionally, a pair of open iron scissors were placed on the chest of the recently deceased, and straws or twigs might be hidden among their clothes.

" Modern Love " and " China Girl " made number two in the UK, accompanied by a pair of acclaimed promotional videos that, as described by biographer David Buckley, " were totally absorbing and activated key archetypes in the pop world.

The pair later broke into a trailer during a rain storm and were arrested, though only Echols was charged with burglary.

Receivers identified which hyperbola they were on and a position could be plotted at the intersection of the hyperbola from different patterns, usually by using the pair with the angle of cut closest to orthogonal as possible.

Later the coaxial cables were replaced by twisted pair and fiber optic links in conjunction with hubs or switches.

The most common, though also most harmless case was various irritating skin rashes, which were called älvablåst ( elven blow ) and could be cured by a forceful counter-blow ( a handy pair of bellows was most useful for this purpose ).

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

it is also their mathematical mean, since it is equal to half the sum of every opposing pair, all of which equal 10.

It also has a pair of short tentacles near the eye that can be extended and which have tactile and olfactory functions.

This also evolved as a method of increasing rate of fire, more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers.

An AMRAAM was also involved in a friendly-fire incident in 1994 when F-15 fighters patrolling the Northern No-Fly Zone inadvertently shot down a pair of U. S. Army Black Hawk helicopters.

They have 10 – 32 trunk segments, decreasing in size from front to back, and each bears a pair of legs which also carry gills.

Alternate hydrogen bonding patterns, such as the wobble base pair and Hoogsteen base pair, also occur — in particular, in RNA — giving rise to complex and functional tertiary structures.

The Third Reform Act also facilitated the demise of the Whig old guard: in two-member constituencies, it was common to pair a Whig and a radical under the Liberal banner.

The pair also formed a romantic relationship that lasted into 1917.

It can also be known as a " square pair ", " mom and dad ", or " Ozzie and Harriet ".

Ten may also be known as " puppy paws " or " a pair of sunflowers.

In Euclidean space, an object is convex if for every pair of points within the object, every point on the straight line segment that joins them is also within the object.

The crane can also be fitted with a small bucket or a pair of pincer type grabs for removing trees and other obstacles.

The modern Cartesian coordinate system in two dimensions ( also called a rectangular coordinate system ) is defined by an ordered pair of perpendicular lines ( axes ), a single unit of length for both axes, and an orientation for each axis.

A PCI device has often an ID pair for the main chip of the device, and also a subsystem ID pair which identifies the vendor, which may be different from the chip manufacturer.

The four disciplines of men's singles, ladies ' singles, pair skating and ice dancing will also appear as part of a team event for the first time at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

In the offseason, the Marlins also pulled the plug on their returns from the disastrous Cabrera / Willis trade dealing Andrew Miller to the Red Sox for a minor league prospect and Cameron Maybin to the Padres for a pair of reliever to aid a struggling bullpen from the 2010 season.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

Eiffel's proposal was for a bridge whose deck was supported by five iron piers, with the abutments of the pair on the river bank also bearing a central supporting arch.

The pair has been compared to similar figures found in Greek, Roman and Vedic mythology, and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the Germanic " wolf-warrior bands ", the Úlfhéðnar.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag ( they are also called opening tags and closing tags ).

This involves the wrapping of DNA around nucleosomes with approximately 50 base pairs of DNA separating each pair of nucleosomes ( also referred to as linker DNA ).