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 ).

A proton is transferred from an unspecified Brønsted acid to ammonia, a Brønsted base ; alternatively, ammonia acts as a Lewis base and transfers a lone pair of electrons to form a bond with a hydrogen ion.

Oscar nominations would come Matthau's way again for 1972's Kotch, directed by Lemmon, and 1975's The Sunshine Boys, another Simon vehicle transferred from the stage, this one about a pair of former vaudeville stars.

To replace the last of the old stock, a pair of Class 458 Junipers were transferred from South West Trains for use as spares.

The pair learn that before he died, Spock transferred his katra, or living spirit, to McCoy.

The gardens contain various landmarks, including a sundial from 1707, a pair of cisterns dated from 1730 and a lead statute of a blackmoor by John Nost, which was transferred from Clifford's Inn when Clifford's was destroyed.

A live pair destined to be transferred to the island in 1893 was instead appropriated by Buller, who bent the law to take them back to England as a present for Lord Rothschild, along with the last collected live pair of Laughing Owls.

The District line was electrified in 1905 over a second pair of tracks, and the service was cut back from Upminster to East Ham ; the station then served as the eastern terminus, where passengers transferred to steam trains, until 1908 when electrification was extended to Barking.

# The maximum power at maximum efficiency will be transferred when the impedances are complex conjugate matched throughout the power chain, from the transmitter output, through the transmission line ( a balanced pair, a coaxial cable, or a waveguide ), to the antenna system, which consists of an impedance matching device and the radiating element ( s ).

First, energy is transferred to charged particles in the medium through various photon interactions ( e. g. photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, pair production and photodisintegration ).

It is hoped that the beavers will form a permanent colony, and the younger pair will be transferred to another location when the adults begin breeding again.

Enraged, Dark Bakura impales this hand on a tower spike, made of polyresin on the game board, but Bakura transferred his soul into a pair of dice, which he then destroyed, killing himself and costing Dark Bakura the game when he could no longer roll the die.

Homeostasis, theoretically, might save the day only at the beginning: before the luminic energy transferred to the " chlorophyl pair " is conveyed to the first element of the cytochrome chain, there is a gap in the process when the energy is carried as a series of excitons.

This is because each pair of shots must be transferred to the computer before another pair of shots can be taken.

Siderods transferred the drive to the other pair of driven wheels.

The drums were revolved and ink, spread evenly across the surface of the screen by a pair of cloth-covered rollers, was forced through the cuts made in the stencil and transferred onto a sheet of paper which was fed through the duplicator and pressed by pressure rollers against the lower drum.

Because the pair are in a close orbit, as this star expanded into a giant it filled its Roche lobe and transferred most of its mass over to its companion.

In this paper, they revealed that if the heavy and stable particles in the early universe which can only be transferred into other particles through the pair annihilation remain as relics after the universe's expansion, then the strength of the interaction should be bigger than 2 GeV.

In case of a baseband channel such as a telegraph line, a serial cable or a Local Area Network twisted pair cable, data is transferred using line codes, i. e. pulses rather than sinewave tones.