For, with a single exception, nothing had happened to them.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

It had a single porcelain stall and but one cabinet for the chairing of the bards.

They seemed then to have had a single mind and body, a mutuality which had been accepted with the fact of their youth, casually.

Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.

A single 24-hr. composite sample had a BOD of 260 mg/l, indicating a typical domestic sewage.

The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.

Once, in New York, he had gone flying with some friends in a small private airplane with a single engine.

The White Sox had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the sixth on a pair of pop fly hits -- a triple by Roy Sievers and single by Camilo Carreon -- a walk and a sacrifice fly.

Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.

The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.

So when old Mr. Lovejoy, the company president, talked about putting in a single sales manager for both branches after the head of the regular steels had gone with Carnegie-Illinois, it looked like the perfect chance for Bobbie.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

Generous bequests to important churches and abbeys in Castile had the effect of making the noble churchmen there beneficiaries who would be encouraged by the will to act as a brake on Alfonso VII's ambitions to break it — and yet among the magnates witnessing the will in 1131 there is not a single cleric.

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

There are still differing theories on whether there was a single exodus or several.

Traditional DNA sequencing techniques such as Maxam-Gilbert or Sanger methods used polyacrylamide gels to separate DNA fragments differing by a single base-pair in length so the sequence could be read.

Blended malt whisky — formerly called vatted malt or pure malt ( terms that are now prohibited in the SWR 2009 )— is one of the least common types of Scotch: a blend of single malts from more than one distillery ( possibly with differing ages ).

SONET / SDH allowed for the simultaneous transport of many different circuits of differing origin within a single framing protocol.

When it occurs between two separate clouds it is known as inter-cloud lightning, and when it occurs between areas of differing electric potential within a single cloud it is known as intra-cloud lightning.

* syllepsis: Form of pun, in which a single word is used to modify two other words, with which it normally would have differing meanings

Pipettes come in several designs for various purposes with differing levels of accuracy and precision, from single piece glass pipettes to more complex adjustable or electronic pipettes.

Hayward's " Question " ( in a differing version ) was issued as a single hitting No. 2 in the UK ( only kept from top spot by The England World Cup football team's novelty record " Back Home ").

No single connector has all the ideal properties ; the proliferation of types is a reflection of differing requirements.

That is, as in the example given above of the idea of chair, a great many objects, differing materially in detail, all call a single idea.

The anime Turn A Gundam attempted to combine all the parallel Gundam universes ( other incarnations of the series, with similar themes but differing stories and characters, that had played out at different times since the debut of the concept in the 1970s ) of the metaseries in to one single reality.

Chromatic aberration of a single lens causes different wavelengths of light to have differing focal lengths.

While a basic model might have a single fixed aperture / focus lens, a better version might have three or four lenses of differing apertures and focal lengths on a rotating turret.

Thus, they were classified as a single species V. cholera: however, Hugh believed the differing features between the two could be of epidmiological importance, so El Tor vibrios were further classified as V. cholerae biotype eltor ( serogroup O1 ).

A single rhyme class may contain multiple finals, generally differing only in the medial ( especially when it is / w /) or in so-called chongniu doublets ( see below ).

Formal game theory is indifferent to whether this mixture is due to all players in a population choosing randomly between the two pure strategies ( a range of possible instinctive reactions for a single situation ) or whether the population is a polymorphic mixture of players dedicated to choosing a particular pure strategy ( a single reaction differing from individual to individual ).

Because the chips have no cash value, usually chips are designed with a single color ( usually differing in shade or tone from the version on the casino floor ), a smaller breadth, and a basic mark on the interior to distinguish denominations ; however, at certain events ( such as the World Series of Poker or other televised poker ), chips approach quality levels of chips on the floor.

Phylogenetic Position of the Tubercle Bacilli within the Genus Mycobacterium The blue triangle corresponds to tubercle bacilli sequences that are identical or differing by a single nucleotide.

" In early 2009, the Royal Society published an article detailing the discovery " that three families with greatly differing morphologies, Mirapinnidae ( tapetails ), Megalomycteridae ( bignose fishes ) and Cetomimidae ( whalefishes ), are larvae, males and females, respectively, of a single family Cetomimidae.

An even finer chronological distinction within Phase 3 is permitted by the settlement's architecture ; the house type with underfloor channels, typical of Nevalı Çori strata I-IV, also characterises the " Intermediate Layer " at Çayönü, while the differing plan of the single building in stratum V, House 1, is more clearly connected to the buildings of the " Cellular Plan Layer " at Çayönü.

The co-existence of such disparate, yet equally valid approaches has led some judges to comment that the citizenship " law is in a sorry state ," that " there cannot be two correct interpretations of a statute ," that " it does not engender confidence in the system for conferring citizenship if an applicant is, in the course of a single application, subjected to different legal tests because of the differing legal views of the Citizenship Court ," that there's a " scandalous incertitude in the law ,"

Chromatic aberration of a single lens causes different wavelengths of light to have differing focal lengths.

At a basic level, a unit might serve as an opposing force for a single scenario, differing from its ' opponents ' only in the objectives it is given.

The technique is capable of extremely high resolution with proteins differing by a single charge being fractionated into separate bands.