Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Individual nuclei were usually oval to round, though occasionally elongated, and frequently small and somewhat pyknotic.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

During the Julio-Claudian period, the Temple of Rome and Augustus, a small, round edifice, about 23 meters from the Parthenon, was to be the last significant ancient construction on the summit of the rock.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

The Shetland or Zetland group are relatively small passage graves, that are round or heel-shaped in outline.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

Most notably a small group of sperm whales live in this area year round.

that all the tiles in 50 miles round would be able to repair but a small part of it.

Common dice are small cubes most commonly 1. 6 cm across, whose faces are numbered from one to six, usually by patterns of round dots called pips.

The much more numerous category of vici, " small towns " grew on informal plans, often round a camp or at a ford or crossroads ; some were not small, others were scarcely urban, some not even defended by a wall, the characteristic feature of a place of any importance.

Kippot range in size from a small round beanie that covers only the back of the head, to a large, snug cap that covers the whole crown.

The most common texture for a knitted garment is that generated by the flat stockinette stitch — as seen, though very small, in machine-made stockings and T-shirts — which is worked in the round as nothing but knit stitches, and worked flat as alternating rows of knit and purl.

The fruit is small and usually round but can be oval shaped.

They are typically small animals with short legs, short, round ears, and thick fur.

In 1976, Nunn produced the play with a minimalist set at The Other Place ; this small, nearly round stage focused attention on the psychological dynamics of the characters.

These folds are studded with small round bodies known as F < sub > 1 </ sub > particles or oxysomes.

About 86 % of the meteorites that fall on Earth are chondrites, which are named for the small, round particles they contain.

From the many subsequent periods before the ascendency of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Mesopotamian art survives in a number of forms: cylinder seals, relatively small figures in the round, and reliefs of various sizes, including cheap plaques of moulded pottery for the home, some religious and some apparently not.

We went towards the centre of this small island where at the foot of a round hill a crystal-clear river rushes forth, dividing up further on into several arms.

The fruit of the Piper plant, called a peppercorn when it is round and pea-sized, as is usual, is distributed in the wild mainly by birds, but small fruit-eating mammals – e. g. bats of the genus Carollia – are also important.

There is a small but significant difference between a pen knife and a quill knife, in that the quill knife has a blade that is flat on one side and convex on the other, which facilitates the round cuts required to shape a quill.

Shot, small and round and delivered without spin, is ballistically inefficient.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

Sunlight in his paintings rakes across the panel, accentuating small bits of detail in the golden light.

There is a fine collection of small arms and machine guns, plus maps, uniforms and paintings on display.

Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings.

His most characteristic paintings are fairly small in scale ; a series of puzzling, often erotic allegories and mythological works.

Russian icons are typically paintings on wood, often small, though some in churches and monasteries may be as large as a table top.

Perhaps the most important of his paintings from the first decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider ( 1903 ), which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow.

With regards to interior decoration, Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings.

His works includes several thousand etchings, usually rather small, and many drawings and paintings.

He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits.

The directives were very broadly interpreted, leading to the destruction of thousands of paintings and thousands more were shipped to deposits in the U. S. Those confiscated paintings still surviving in U. S. custody include for example a painting " depicting a couple of middle aged women talking in a sunlit street in a small town ".

Matte paintings of the Austrian castle and German airport were based on real buildings ; the Austrian castle was a small West German castle that was made to look larger.

Many of his paintings depict Port Vendres, a small port near the Spanish border, and the nearby landscapes.

The White Jasmine Branch, early 12th century painting ; small paintings in the style of round-albums that captured realistic scenes of nature were widely popular in the Southern Song period.

From the Middle Ages many panel paintings took the diptych form, as small portable works for personal use ; large altarpieces tended to be made in triptych form, with two outer panels that could be closed across the main central representation.

After the defeat of Troy in the Trojan War, the elderly Anchises was carried from the burning city by his son Aeneas, accompanied by Aeneas ' wife Creusa, who died in the escape attempt, and small son Ascanius ( the subject is depicted in several paintings, including a famous version by Federico Barocci in the Galleria Borghese in Rome ).

Smallville is usually portrayed as an idyllic, small isolated American town, with an atmosphere resembling the settings of the paintings of Norman Rockwell.

Apart from the altarpiece and the frescoes, all Giorgione's surviving works are small paintings designed for the wealthy Venetian collector to keep in his home ; most are under two feet ( 60 cm ) in either dimension.

The vast bulk of documentation for paintings in this period relates to large commissions for Church or government ; the small domestic panels that make up the bulk of Giorgione's oeuvre are always far less likely to be recorded.

The Pastoral Concert is one of a small group of paintings, also including the Virgin and Child with Saint Anthony and Saint Roch in the Prado, which are very close in style and, according to Charles Hope, have been " more and more frequently given to Titian, not so much because of any very compelling resemblance to his undisputed early works-which would surely have been noted before-as because he seemed a less implausible candidate than Giorgione.

The pattern on each bird's beak is unique and is recorded in small paintings from front and side views ( rather like " mug shots ") to aid recognition.