Seeing the slanting hand, Kate knew uneasily that it was from the Yankee colonel.

Because the AP was a cooperative essentially owned by the newspapers, those in the South influenced its coverage of the racial unrest and protests, often ignoring, minimizing, or slanting the reporting.

The actual tomb chamber was built below the south-end of mastaba, connected with a slanting passage to a stairway emerging in the center of columned hall or court.

The slanting roof was made of oiled cloth painted to give the colour of lead and the illusion of slates.

The word " diagonal " derives from the ancient Greek διαγώνιος diagonios, " from angle to angle " ( from διά-dia -, " through ", " across " and γωνία gonia, " angle ", related to gony " knee "); it was used by both Strabo and Euclid to refer to a line connecting two vertices of a rhombus or cuboid, and later adopted into Latin as diagonus (" slanting line ").

Tall, voluptuous, with masses of auburn hair, slanting, heavy-lidded blue-violet eyes, alabaster skin, and a sensuous, sulky mouth, Barbara Villiers was considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Royalist women, but her lack of fortune left her with reduced marriage prospects.

The Alster Tower was purposely constructed with slanting and uneven walls, ceilings, and roofs.

One was cut deeply in middle and it turned into Tulong ( woman ) and identified as Roltei while the other was cut in a slanting position thereby producing pointed parts and the very being became Tumong ( man ) who came to be Known as Rolphul.

As the Adam / Eve storyline of 1968 began to wind down, Ron Sproat was in the stages of slanting the plot to reveal Victoria's lineage when Moltke left the series due to her pregnancy.

It was created by an earthquake which pushed the rocks upwards creating the slanting effect.

There was a video camera for students to have video conference with overseas students, and a slanting window in the ceiling, in order to let the natural sunlight come into the classroom, which greatly increases the energy efficiency of the room.

The first slanting rays of the new day cannot yet dispel all the dark shadows which lie across the Aegean world ; ;

The Metropolitan's sculpture of a heroically nude helmeted warrior stands on a forward-slanting base, looking down and slightly to his left, with his right arm raised, prepared to strike, would not be identifiable, save by comparison made by Gisela Richter with a torso of the same model and its associated slanting base, schematically carved as the prow of a ship encircled by waves: Protesilaus about to jump ashore.

Many of these ranges are characterized by the rounded tops and the rather evenly slanting, waste-covered slopes which normally result from the long-continued action of the ordinary agencies of erosion.

Hills ’ writings have been taken to task in slanting the public opinion toward the KJVO stance proffered by the movement, as well as against other Bible versions.

The 4 pillars stand on foundation stones, and they are supported on front and back by slanting accessory pillars for better stability.

The roof is supported by four slanting beams that rise from the corners of the building with a ridge pole that is further supported by a curving king pole resting on a tie beam.

The locomotive has been lengthened and given a 1, 200 hp ( 890 kW ) engine by this point ; also, a more slanting pilot ( locomotive ) | pilot has been fitted and the paint scheme has been altered.

There are contemporary corrections in slanting uncial script which employ a Greek syllabification similar to that used by Victor of Capua.

With limbs slanting your body levels by itself ...

The harder rocks of the Head are separated from the sedimentary rock to the SW by the NW slanting St. Abbs Head Fault which is marked by a low lying valley which at times of higher sea level would have been flooded, cutting off the headland from the mainland.

This would clue, define to us an opposite to eidetic reduction, namely the political slanting by chronic association, false connotation and plain lying, and / or deceits by repetitions or hypnosis.

Nest cavities can either be deep upward slanting tubes that lead to fully enclosed chambers, or much shallower open niches ( from which the bird is visible ).

The letter d often appears in an uncial form, with an ascender slanting to the left, but the letter g is essentially the same as the modern minuscule letter, rather than the previously common uncial g. Ascenders are usually ' clubbed '— i. e., they become thicker near the top.

Alemannic minuscule, used for a short time in the early 9th century, is usually larger and broader, very vertical compared to the slanting Rhaetian type.

Professional typographic systems, including most modern computers, would therefore not simply tilt letters to the right to achieve italics ( that is instead referred to as slanting or oblique ), print them twice or darker for boldface, or scale majuscules to the height of middle-chamber minuscules ( like x and o ) for small-caps, but instead use entirely different typefaces that achieve the effect.

Hence it holds for all pyramids, even slanting ones whose apex is not directly above the center of the base, and those with base a parallelogram instead of a square.

A cornice is horizontal molded projection that completes a building or wall ; or the upper slanting part of an entablature located above the frieze.

Single coverage in the " red zone " ( an area between the goal-line and the twenty-yard line ) is usually designed to prevent receivers from slanting towards the middle of the field.

The technique of angling the bar so that the strings played are unequal in length and different intervals between the notes are played is called " slanting ".

The dish is named after its traditional cooking vessel, the cassole, a deep, round, earthenware pot with slanting sides.

Shown below is an example of black and white lines at the Nyquist limit, but at a slanting angle, taking advantage of subpixel rendering to use a different phase each row:

The calling card of this delivery, for the batsman to read it in advance, is the typical wobble in the seam after ball release with the seam slanting predominantly towards the batsman.

Pocket C is an orange building with a slanting foyer look.

The Severinsche Haus is a richly decorated house dating from 1683 known for its slanting floors.

The nest is a slanting hole dug in soft soil and lined with vegetation and fur.

Small but notable craters overlay the rim and inner walls on the northeast and northwest sides, and there is a slanting gouge in the eastern rim.

Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fonts due to its special " y " descender ( tail ) and slanting " e " cut.

In the examples 2 / 5 and 7 / 3, the slanting line is called a solidus or forward slash.

However, it is hoped that the slanting wedge-shaped design will have less impact on the protected sightline of St Paul's Cathedral when viewed from Fleet Street.

Musgrave Park is a remnant of the former Kurilpa ( South Brisbane ) Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from “ Highgate Hill and on ( to ) the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya (= Somerville House )” and additionally “ sometimes they made a camp in the little scrub then situated on the river bank near the recent entrance to the Dry Dock ”.

Out of the Oracle's Room, through the hammer dressed chamber, on the right is another spacious hall, circular, with inward slanting smooth walls, richly decorated in a geometrical pattern.