She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

Terracing, however, was only extensively employed after Incan imperial expansions to fuel their expanding realm.

After Alexander's death, his strong realm was plunged into a period of darkness that would eventually lead to war with England.

Restoring religion and learning in Wessex, Abels contends, was to Alfred's mind as essential to the defence of his realm as the building of the burhs.

Joan II and Louis III again took possession of the realm, although the true power was in the hands of Gianni Caracciolo.

Salieri's first great success was in the realm of serious opera.

The division of the realm was confirmed in 880 on Carloman ’ s death.

Arnulf, having distinguished himself in the war against the Slavs was elected by the nobles of the realm ( only the eastern realm, though Charles had ruled the whole of the Frankish lands ) and assumed his title of King of East Francia.

Abjuration of the realm was a type of abjuration in ancient English law.

She was one of the first women to explore fully the realm of erotic writing, and certainly the first prominent woman in the modern West to write erotica.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm.

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

Though enjoined by royal mandate in 1501 for general use within the realm of Scotland, it was probably never widely adopted.

The " common law " was the law that emerged as " common " throughout the realm ( as distinct from the various legal codes that preceded it, such as Mercian law, the Danelaw and the law of Wessex ) as the king's judges followed each other's decisions to create a unified common law throughout England.

The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.

Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history.

The population was rising ( estimates for Constantinople in the 12th century vary from some 100, 000 to 500, 000 ), and towns and cities across the realm flourished.

This form of citizenship in common in common law countries and originated in England where those who were born within the realm was subjects of the king.

Though German was spoken in each realm, sharing the same language and culture more often than not pushed Austria-Hungary and Germany apart.

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

Over the next few years Eleanor often traveled with her husband and was sometimes associated with him in the government of the realm, but still had a custodian so that she was not free.

They can be divided broadly into two categories: dualist solutions that maintain Descartes ' rigid distinction between the realm of consciousness and the realm of matter but give different answers for how the two realms relate to each other ; and monist solutions that maintain that there is really only one realm of being, of which consciousness and matter are both aspects.

In the later part of his reign, Ivan divided his realm in two.

This powerful form of kami was also divided into amatsu-kami (" the heavenly deities ") and kunitsu-kami (" the gods of the earthly realm ").

Once again the elder Louis divided his vast realm.

The Tapestry is naturally divided into various sections, including the physical realm and various levels of the spirit world, or Umbra.

It was now the sons of the mayor that divided the realm among each other under the rule of a single king.

Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun ; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts.

Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by the youngest grandson Lothar I. Lothar died early in 855 and his realm was divided into three parts.

Counterrevolutionaries, such as Joseph de Maistre or Louis de Bonald, sought the restoration of the Ancien Régime, divided in the three estates of the realm, and the divine right of kings.

Charles tried to annex his realm too, but was defeated decisively at Andernach, and the Kingdom of the eastern Franks was divided between Louis the Younger, Carloman of Bavaria and Charles the Fat.

Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and died two years later, his realm being divided between his eldest two sons: Louis III gaining Neustria and Francia, and Carloman gaining Aquitaine and Burgundy.

Thus the history of English military law up to 1879 may be divided into three periods, each having a distinct constitutional aspect: ( I ) prior to 1689, the army, being regarded as so many personal retainers of the sovereign rather than servants of the state, was mainly governed by the will of the sovereign ; ( 2 ) between 1689 and 1803, the army, being recognized as a permanent force, was governed within the realm by statute and without it by the prerogative of the crown and ( 3 ) from 1803 to 1879, it was governed either directly by statute or by the sovereign under an authority derived from and defined and limited by statute.

Although doubts were cast upon their legitimacy, the brothers obtained recognition and in March 880 divided their father's realm at Amiens, Carloman receiving Burgundy and Aquitaine.

At the same meeting the barons – under the leadership of Lancaster – divided up the realm to oppose the king.

Edwin's realm was divided at his death.

His realm, the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg were practically divided into a catholic and a prostestant part.

Amergin divided the kingship between Éremon, who ruled the northern half, and Éber Finn, who ruled the southern half of the realm.

Following the defeat of the princes of Gwynedd and the division of their realm authorised by the Statute of Rhuddlan, Deheubarth was divided into the historic counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.

In 561 Chlothar died and his realm was divided, in a replay of the events of fifty years prior, between his four sons, with the chief cities remaining the same.

Shortly before his death in October 741, Charles divided the realm as if he were king between his two sons by his first wife, marginalising his younger son Grifo, who did receive a small portion ( it is unknown exactly what ).

León was created as a separate kingdom when the Asturian king, Alfonso the Great, divided his realm among his three sons.