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 ).

In analytic geometry, the plane is given a coordinate system, by which every point has a pair of real number coordinates.

The complexity of executing an algorithm with a human-assisted Turing machine is given by a pair, where the first element represents the complexity of the human's part and the second element is the complexity of the machine's part.

The pair later applied the technique to printed media and audio recordings in an effort to decode the material's implicit content, hypothesizing that such a technique could be used to discover the true meaning of a given text.

With this knowledge and a pair of glasses given to him as a gift by Wonder Woman, ' Clark ' regains his humanity, and sets out to become a hero again by re-fertilizing the irradiated fields of Kansas.

The school's central idea is given as training to use the twin swords of the samurai as effectively as a pair of sword and jutte.

Therefore, each mirror pair and each non-chiral stereoisomer may be given a specific monosaccharide name.

Several set-theoretic definitions of the ordered pair are given below.

However, the absence of minimal pairs for a given pair of phones does not always mean that they belong to the same phoneme.

It results in two polynomials, a quotient and a remainder that are characterized by the following property of the polynomials: given two polynomials a and b such that b ≠ 0, there exists a unique pair of polynomials, q, the quotient, and r, the remainder, such that a = b q + r and degree ( r ) < degree ( b ) ( here the polynomial zero is supposed to have a negative degree ).

Refraction is described by Snell's law, which states that for a given pair of media and a wave with a single frequency, the ratio of the sines of the angle of incidence θ < sub > 1 </ sub > and angle of refraction θ < sub > 2 </ sub > is equivalent to the ratio of phase velocities ( v < sub > 1 </ sub > / v < sub > 2 </ sub >) in the two media, or equivalently, to the opposite ratio of the indices of refraction ( n < sub > 2 </ sub > / n < sub > 1 </ sub >):

As the probability that electrons and holes meet together is proportional to the product of their amounts, the product is in steady state nearly constant at a given temperature, providing that there is no significant electric field ( which might " flush " carriers of both types, or move them from neighbour regions containing more of them to meet together ) or externally driven pair generation.

Savate uses glove colors to indicate a fighter's level of proficiency ( unlike arts such as karate, which assign new belts at each promotion, moving to a higher color rank in savate does not necessarily entail a change in the color of one's actual gloves, and a given fighter may continue using the same pair of gloves through multiple promotions ).

* Warpath uses a pair of vibranium daggers given to him by Storm.

The pair shook hands at the commencement of the game, bringing closure to the issue, but Carlton fans were particularly hostile to any free kicks given by McLaren to Essendon.

) Numbers are formed by pairing subsets of numbers already constructed: given subsets L and R of numbers such that all the members of L are strictly less than all the members of R, then the pair

When it docked in Canton, the captain was given a pair of Sang-hsia-k ' o's Tangram books from 1815.

In a more general sense, the strophe is a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based, with the strophe usually being identical with the stanza in modern poetry and its arrangement and recurrence of rhymes giving it its character.

Athenaeus also mentions him, in connection with the self-sacrifice of the erastes and eromenos pair of Cratinus and Aristodemus, who were believed to have given their lives in order to purify Athens.

Special relativity suggests that the concept of simultaneity is not universal: according to the relativity of simultaneity, observers in different frames of reference can have different perceptions of whether a given pair of events happened at the same time or at different times, with there being no physical basis for preferring one frame's judgments over another's ( though in a case where one event A happens in the past light cone of another event B, all frames will agree that A happened in the past of B ).

Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress.

The pineapple-topped obelisk at Holt is one of a pair gateposts from Melton Constable park, the other having been given to the town of Dereham in 1757.

Wrens have loud and often complex songs, sometimes given in duet by a pair.

The polar decomposition factors a matrix into a pair, one of which is the unique closest orthogonal matrix to the given matrix, or one of the closest if the given matrix is singular.

Measures of alignment credibility indicate the extent to which the best scoring alignments for a given pair of sequences are substantially similar.