Over the rattling of fenders, humming of tires and chattering of gears there was a charming melody of whispers and tiny giggles.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

One tiny detail in a happening can clog the memory and stick like meat in a crooked tooth, while the rest of the occurrence will go hazy and uncertain.

It was nothing more than a tiny distant rain squall, a dull gray sheet which reached from a layer of clouds to the earth.

The other trotted over and swooped at the tiny puddle.

The tiny bodies, dropped onto a dry leaf, made a pile as big as a small apple.

Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.

It had a tiny envelope tied to its wrist.

The tiny hamlet of Chesterton to the north, with the fens and marshes lying on down the Ouse River, may have attracted him often, as it did many other youths of the time.

Against the dramatic fight being waged for preservation of 30 miles of Cape Cod shoreline, the tiny tract at Stone Harbor may seem unimportant.

They were far off and looked tiny.

a tiny cake of ice.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

They germinate quickly, the tiny plants appearing in a week, and grow along lustily.

Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.

With the exception of the sports cars, even the quite tiny sedans will seat four passengers if you are willing to sacrifice comfort and luggage space for really economical transportation.

By scrutinizing the flowers, one can also notice that the scale bears one or two tiny warts.

If he decides to proceed, he will custom-make for Susie an appliance consisting of bands, plastic plates, fine wires, and tiny springs.

Still another group of seeds ( sometimes tiny, dry, seed-bearing fruits ) provide distinctive flavors and odors to foods, although the nutrients they supply are quite negligible.

Turn to the right along a narrow street to the tiny Piazza Campitelli, then proceed along the Via Dei Funari to the Piazza Mattei.

His eyes were threaded by little filaments of red as if tiny veins had burst and flooded blood into them.

Lolotte held a patch of leather, Rev steadied something, a tiny brad, waiting for George's poised hammer.

Men blew dust on objects in a room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Dumont and blew it off again, and did the same in a tiny, almost airless room in a tenement in the West Forties.

According to al-Libi, in Egypt he was locked in a tiny box less than 20 inches high and held for 17 hours and after being let out he was thrown to the floor and punched for 15 minutes.

* February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate submarine Hunley torpedoes the USS Housatonic, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship ( the sub and her crew of 8 are also lost ).

Hempfield is a tiny locale in West Hempfield Township a few miles west of Lancaster, Pennsylvania at 40 ° 03 ' 17 " north latitude, 76 ° 26 ' 20 " west longitude.

Her main claim to fame was her hourglass figure of prodigious breasts coupled with a tiny 17 " waist.

By 1840, Jews constituted a tiny, but nonetheless stable, middle-class minority of about 15, 000 out of the 17 million Americans counted by the U. S. Census.

Koniecpolski's insistence of taking the war to the seas resulted in the tiny and untested Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy of 9 ships to the defeat of a Swedish flotilla on 28 November 1627 ( or 17 November, dates vary ), at the Battle of Oliwa.

With the successful introduction of Fokker's mechanism for synchronising the firing of a machine gun with the blades of a moving propeller, followed quickly by the widespread adoption of synchronisation gears by all the combatants in 1916 / 17, the tractor configuration became almost universally favoured and pushers were reduced to the tiny minority of new aircraft designs that had a specific reason for using the arrangement.

The tiny Gumstix Overo COMs are 17 mm x 58 mm x 4. 2 mm ( 0. 67 in.

The firing methods, paraphernalia and mechanism further divide both categories as do caliber ( From cannons to tiny caliber palm guns ).

The tiny. 10 caliber bullets produce almost no recoil and travel at very high velocities.

Based on research done in the 1950s by the U. S. Air Force, in which it was discovered that bullets are more stable in flight for longer distances and more resistant to crosswinds if the center of gravity is somewhat to the rear of the center of pressure, the MatchKing bullet ( which is still in wide use and holds many records ) is a hollow point design with a tiny aperture in the jacket at the point of the bullet and a hollow air space under the point of the bullet, where previous conventional bullets had had a lead core that went all the way up to the point.

Frangible bullets, made of tiny fragments held together by a weak binding, are often sold as an " ultimate " expanding bullet, as they will increase their effective diameter by an order of magnitude.

The layers were fashioned to break up particles of space debris and tiny meteorites that might hit the shell with a speed seven times as fast as a bullet.

Even a tiny error in the angle of sight alignment results in a trajectory that diverges from the target on a trajectory directly relative to the distance from the target, causing the bullet to miss the target ; for example with an Olympic 10 metre air rifle shooter trying to hit the 10 ring, which is merely a 0. 5 mm diameter dot on the target at 10 meters and with a 4. 5 mm diameter pellet, an error of only 0. 2 mm in sight alignment can mean a complete miss ( a 3 mm point of impact miss ).

Also, when it strikes a hard surface from which a solid bullet would glance off, it fragments into tiny, light pieces and creates much less ricochet danger.

It is also important to realize that many girls are born without a hymen or at most only a tiny trace of one ; ;

The male Colostethus subpunctatus, a tiny frog, protects his egg cluster which is hidden under a stone or log.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

In large part, this is because the tiny flowers forming the umbels, are perfectly suited for ladybugs, parasitic wasps, and predatory flies, which actually drink nectar when not reproducing.

The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).

Classically, it is forbidden to escape, but according to the ( then ) newly-discovered principles of quantum mechanics, it has a tiny ( but non-zero ) probability of " tunneling " through the barrier and appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus.

A farm near Racine, Wisconsin, is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas.

The outer portion of the cell, or ectoplasm, is distinct and is filled with many tiny vacuoles, which assist in flotation.

To the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike.

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.

Extreme cases like Mira undergo large swings over hundreds of days ; Arcturus is not very red and is a borderline case between variability and stability with its short period and tiny range.

The last is a picturesque trip starting in the south of the Black Forest going north and includes numerous old wineries and tiny villages.

You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways ... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight ...

One of the latest developments is the identification of a plant gene, At-DBF2, from Arabidopsis thaliana, a tiny weed that is often used for plant research because it is very easy to grow and its genetic code is well mapped out.

At the intersection with 72nd street, the triangle of tiny Verdi Square is surrounded by several notable apartment buildings, including The Ansonia, and the Florentine palazzo occupied by Apple Bank for Savings.

Printer steganography is a type of steganography produced by color printers, including Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Konica Minolta, Kyocera, Lanier, Lexmark, Ricoh, Toshiba and Xerox brand color laser printers, where tiny yellow dots are added to each page.

When brain tissue from a CJD patient is examined under a microscope, many tiny holes can be seen where whole areas of nerve cells have died.

While known for most elements, either or both of these measurements is still undetermined for some of the radioactive elements available in only tiny quantities.

This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.

CD data is stored as a series of tiny indentations known as " pits ", encoded in a spiral track moulded into the top of the polycarbonate layer.