The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

Later that year, the eunuchs persuaded Emperor Ling that the " partisans " ( i. e., Confucian officials and university students who supported them ) were plotting against him, and a large number of partisans were arrested and killed ; the others had their civil liberties stripped completely, in what later was known as the second Disaster of Partisan Prohibitions.

However, after the second partition of Poland, the ruling partisans of Imperial Russia united in the Confederation of Targowica were also weakened.

When Yuan Shao was young, he participated in saving some of the " partisans " from death or other terrible fates during the second of the Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions.

His condemnation ... was the result of a quarrel between two men of law, of some particular resentments which directed the first judges, and of the skill with which, to influence the second, was emphasized the general alarm inspired in partisans of Religion by the redoubled attacks which he saw carried against it, by the sort of plot formed to destroy it ; but one cannot say that he was entirely innocent, and I so warned M. de Voltaire himself by a special letter.

Pitu Guli is also a father of Steryo Gulev, reportedly shot himself after Bulgarian withdrawal in 1944, upon the arrival of Tito's partisans in Krushevo in despair over what he saw as a second period of Serbian dominance in Macedonia.

If voters from B and C's party vote for them, while A's partisans cast one vote for A and split their second vote between B and C, A is significantly disadvantaged.

In his absence, the affairs of the Party and of the Party resistance movement ( FTP ) in France were organised by his second in command, Jacques Duclos.

* Confucian scholars who had denounced the court eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital of Luoyang and official life during the second episode of the Disasters of Partisan Prohibitions, which did not formally end until 184 with the onslaught of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Some neurons emit action potentials constantly, at rates of 10 – 100 per second, usually in irregular patterns ; other neurons are quiet most of the time, but occasionally emit a burst of action potentials.

Inspection of the formulae above shows that the ( ideally constant ) unit of ephemeris time such as the ephemeris second has been for the whole of the twentieth century very slightly shorter than the corresponding ( but not precisely constant ) unit of mean solar time ( which besides its irregular fluctuations tends gradually to increase ), consistently also with the modern results of Morrison and Stephenson ( see article ΔT ).

To be belongs to the set of irregular verbs in English ; some individuals, especially those who have learned English as a second language, may have difficulty recognizing all its forms.

This makes it necessary to insert a leap second at irregular intervals.

Metis has an irregular shape and measures 60 × 40 × 34 km across, which makes it the second smallest of the four inner satellites of Jupiter.

As an example, we can take the result of the irregular columnar transposition in the previous section, and perform a second encryption with a different keyword, < tt > STRIPE </ tt >, which gives the permutation " 564231 ":

Sharp waves are most frequent during sleep, when they occur at an average rate around 1 per second ( in rats ), but in a very irregular temporal pattern.

Then on January 24, 2006, Lemieux announced his second retirement, this time for good, after developing an irregular heart beat.

The second reason for an irregular roadway and property boundary system is due to the community originally being built around the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( now the CSX railway ).

Productions of the play, which came from Bavaria to the Tyrol in the second half of the eighteenth century, were arranged at irregular intervals during the first half of the nineteenth century ; since 1855 they have taken place at regular intervals, at Brixlegg every ten years.

Latin verbs are subject to a similar classification: the first conjugation contains vowel stems with a, the second with e, and the fourth with i. There are no Latin verbs with o or u, and very few are athematic, but they are considered irregular verbs.

** Italian: list of principal irregular second and third conjugation verbs

The second code, consisting of unpredictable rhythms, irregular phrasing and based on long passages with many repeat notes, augmented and diminished intervals and extended melismas, depict sensual longing.

In the first case words lose the ending "- re " and they gain the endings errimo ( singular masculine ), errima ( singular feminine ), érrimos / errimi ( plural masculine ), or érrimas / errime ( plural feminine ); in the second case words lose the "- l "/"- le " ending and gain ílimo / illimo ( singular masculine ), ílima / illima ( singular feminine ), ílimos / illimi ( plural masculine ), or ílimas / illime ( plural feminine ), the irregular form for words ending in "- l "/"- le " is somehow rare and, in Italian but nor is Portuguese, it exists only in the archaic or literary language.

However, a lengthy period of decline set in around the second half of the 17th century because of plagues, famines and continual wars: courses were irregular or temporarily suspended, the number of chairs was reduced, and for those temporarily vacant, it was necessary to resort to private instruction.

* The Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park With George uses the word gavotte as a satirical device in the otherwise irregular, non-steadily rhythmical, song " It's Hot Up Here " to start the second Act, " We're stuck up here in this gavotte.

The first one known as Dwingeloo 2 is an irregular galaxy and the second MB 3 is likely a dwarf spheroidal galaxy.

Where the northern edge of the African Plate is being subducted in an irregular line a second orogeny occurs that is not entirely understood.

The Hippopotamus Defence is a name for various irregular chess opening systems in which Black moves a number of his pawns to the third rank, often developing his pieces to the second rank, and does not move any of his pawns to the fourth rank in the opening.

The menuetto and its trio give good examples of this in brief, with the brief irregular near-canon between first violin and viola in the second half of the main portion of the minuet, and the double imitations ( between the violins, and between the viola and cello ) going on in the trio.

These vapors are then accelerated to very high velocities ( several tens of kilometers per second ) outward, and the clustered masses of varying vapor density of this material are splashing against the back of the shock front in an irregular pattern due to initial variations in mass distribution around the bomb core.

This contains all the other verbs, all considered as to some extent irregular, to wit: the verbs ending in-ir not belonging to the second conjugation, the verbs ending in-oir, the verbs ending in-re, and the verb aller:

A second vote which Tomatis called " highly irregular " occurred after " industry observers schmoozed with the panelists and one panelist left the meeting ", and a 15-14 vote downgraded the chemical to a " possible carcinogen ".

The concept of regular and irregular verbs belongs mainly in the context of second language acquisition, where the defining of rules and listing of exceptions is an important part of foreign language learning.