The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

The body may have been two or three weeks' dead.

C'mon, buddy, help me set up the kitchen and we'll have food in a minute or two ''.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

I don't propose to go into their history, but I have one or two surmises.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.

This session, for instance, may have insured a financial crisis two years from now.

To almost two generations of Americans it must have seemed as though the existence of Mr. Sam coincided with that of the House.

The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.

We in East Greenwich have the example of two neighboring communities, one currently utilizing double sessions in their schools, and the other facing this prospect next year.

Since two of these could be trustees of the college, actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue.

A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years ''.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.

The two in the bed knew each other as old people know the partners with whom they have shared the same bed for many years, and they needed to say no more.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

In 1284, Alexander invested the title of Lord of the Isles in the head of the Macdonald family, Angus Macdonald, and over the next two centuries the Macdonald lords operated as if they were kings in their own right, frequently opposing the Scottish monarch.

Thus, ocular albinism occurs more frequently in males as they have a single X and Y chromosome, unlike females, whose genetics are characterized by two X chromosomes.

Bay ( laurel ) leaves are frequently packaged as tejpatta ( the Hindi term for Indian bay leaf ), creating confusion between the two herbs.

Although Beavis and Butt-Head greatly admire him and aspire to join his " gang ," Todd despises the two and frequently beats them up and takes advantage of them when he needs something, such as money, food or a place to hide from other gangs or the police.

These two approaches frequently converged and generally complemented one another.

Rock climbers frequently connect two non-locking carabiners with a short length of nylon web to create a quickdraw.

The latter two methods are used less frequently than keyboard-based input methods and suffer from relatively high error rates, especially when used without proper " training ", though higher error rates are an acceptable trade-off to many users.

Common Lisp is most frequently compared with, and contrasted to, Scheme — if only because they are the two most popular Lisp dialects.

In the Rigveda, earth and sky are frequently addressed as a duality, often indicated by the idea of two complementary " half-shells.

Howard frequently corresponded with H. P. Lovecraft, and the two would sometimes insert references or elements of each other's settings in their works.

The two girls often played together beside the beck ( stream ) at the bottom of the garden, much to their mothers ' annoyance, because they frequently came back with wet feet and clothes.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

Remaining cacti fall into only two genera, Pereskia and Maihuenia, and are rather different, which means that any description of cacti as a whole must frequently make exceptions for them.

In the study of declarative memory, the hippocampus and the amygdala are two structures frequently examined using this technique.

If these two features of the language coincide too frequently, they overemphasize each other and the hexameter becomes sing-songy.

As various permanent representations evolved, usually on a treaty basis between two powers, they were frequently staffed by relatives of the sovereign or high-ranking nobles.

In order to be effective, classroom instruction needs to change subjects at times near a typical student's attention span, which can be as frequently as every two minutes for young children.

It existed in two shapes, one was a pentagram and it was still frequently used in early 20th century Sweden as painted or carved onto doors, walls and household utensils in order to protect against elves.

Both weak distribution and the sharing of a common language with the US have frequently led to a blurring of the two industries.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

The early Governors-General frequently sought advice on the exercise of their powers from two judges of the High Court of Australia, Sir Samuel Griffith and Sir Edmund Barton.

* The Moonshiners: Shown most frequently, were one or two of the male cast ( playing a couple of lethargic hillbillies ) who would lazily tell a joke while dozing on the floor near a bunch of moonshine jugs and Beauregard the Wonder Dog ( Kingfish the Wonder Dog in earlier shows ), with scantily dressed girls in the background.

Another way is to use a ' head shaking ' technique, frequently used in blues harmonica, in which the player moves the lips between two holes very quickly.