Because the summer was unusually dry and hot, the spring produced a smaller stream than in ordinary years.

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

Annisberg was about seventy-five miles west of Birmingham, near the Georgia border and on the Tallahoosa River, a small and dirty stream.

The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

It was nearly sundown before they finished the business with Beall and began riding down the stream.

The essential characteristic of an optimal policy when the state of the stream is transformed in a sequence of stages with no feedback was first isolated by Bellman.

It was up to her to save Poor John, dear John, to undo the wrong she had done, but she trembled at the decision as at the brink of a cold stream.

`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

In Chinese astronomy, the stream of water flowing from the Water Jar was depicted as the " Army of Yu-Lin " ( Yu-lin-kiun ).

Anavarza ) was an ancient Cilician city, situated in Anatolia in modern Turkey, in the present Çukurova ( or classical Aleian plain ) about 15 km west of the main stream of the present Ceyhan River ( or classical Pyramus river ) and near its tributary the Sempas Su.

Peter B. deMenocal, has shown there was an influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates at this time, which led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire ".

The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred.

This was clearly unacceptable for speech traffic, which needs to have low jitter in the data stream being fed into the codec if it is to produce good-quality sound.

But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.

" When he was looking for a suitable place to step into the stream, he heard the sweet chirping of birds.

A small stream, the Nebel, ( the ground either side of which was soft and marshy and only fordable intermittently ), fronted the French line.

The French commanders were, however, divided as to how to utilise the Nebel: Tallard's tactic – opposed by Marsin and the Elector who felt it better to close their infantry right up to the stream itself – was to lure the allies across before unleashing their cavalry upon them, causing panic and confusion ; whilst the enemy was struggling in the marshes, they would be caught in crossfire from Blenheim and Oberglauheim.

The first line of foot was to pass the stream first and march as far to the other side as could be conveniently done.

A large open plain, just over 1 mile (~ 2 km ) wide, lay between Taviers and Ramillies, but unlike Blenheim, there was no stream to hinder the cavalry.

The French left flank was protected by broken country, and by a stream, the Petite Gheete, which runs deep between steep and slippery slopes.

A `` mental image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought, or consciously in light sleep, is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities, viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream, but within the depths of the fourth dimension.

Arcturus is thought to be an old disk star, and appears to be moving with a group of 52 other such stars, known as the Arcturus stream.

Sir James Jeans wrote ; " The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality ; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

This stream of thought focuses primarily on the employee or the individual contributor.

American Autonomist Marxism was also a child of this stream, for instance in the thought of Harry Cleaver.

Theosophy actually designates a specific flow of thought, current, stream or tradition within the modern study of esotericism.

The head would then be thrown into a stream, where the weight of its sins were thought to weigh it down.

Buddhist doctrine was rigorously critiqued ( though not ultimately refuted ) in the 2nd century by Nagarjuna, whose uncompromisingly logical approach to the realisation of truth, became the basis for the development of a vital stream of Buddhist thought.

In these cases, the contrast medium is thought to reach the vascular system via lymphovenous communications which shunt the material directly into the venous stream, bypassing those lymph nodes distal to the communications, Because less contrast agent is absorbed in lymph nodes, a greater portion of the injected volume passes into the vascular system.

He is unknown throughout the rest of the Roman Empire and is therefore thought to have been a local god of the Roman fort at Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, possibly associated with either a natural spring or a stream in the neighbourhood The god is known only from an inscribed bronze feather, very likely some sort of votive object, dedicated to him

Its name is thought to derive from the rye that was once grown in this area, or from the Anglo-Saxon word rithe which means a small stream.

Mortelage is thought to mean a small stream containing young salmon, referring to a fishery in the area on a former tributary of the River Thames which is now gone.

in talking of it hereafter, lets call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue ( see below ), or in connection to his or her actions.

In stream of consciousness the speaker's thought processes are more often depicted as overheard in the mind ( or addressed to oneself ); it is primarily a fictional device.

The story explains these magical elements as real occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the " real " and the " fantastic " in the same stream of thought.

Douglas ( occasionally spelled Douglass ) is a common surname of Scottish origin, thought to derive from the Gaelic dubh glas, meaning " black stream ".

In particular, Inness was inspired by James ' idea of consciousness as a " stream of thought ", as well as his ideas concerning how mystical experience shapes one's perspective toward nature.

It was used as a healing process, thought to remove toxins from the blood stream.

The name is thought to derive from an old Slavic word sopot meaning " stream " or " spring ".

Many of his fans from the Ton Steine Scherben-days thought that he was selling out to main stream, capitalist music business finally, and blamed him for becoming-at least for a period of time-a commercially successful musician.

Another stream of thought and evidence suggests that the effects of interference on recency and primacy are relative, determined by the ratio rule ( retention interval to inter item presentation distractor rate ) and they exhibit time-scale invariance.

In prose, anacoluthon is often used in stream of consciousness writing, such as that of James Joyce, because it is characteristic of informal human thought.

Philosophical Taoism or Daoism ( 道家 ; Dàojiā ; Tao-chia ; " School of the Way ") developed into the second most significant stream of Chinese thought.

He was a colleague and friend of the influential Silla Hwaom monk Uisang, and an important result of their combined works was the establishment of Hwaeom as the dominant stream of doctrinal thought on the Korean peninsula.