He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

A Crucifixion ( unusually set on the banks of a large river ) by Altdorfer, c. 1520.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences.

While rocks melted by the impact resemble volcanic rocks, they incorporate unmelted fragments of bedrock, form unusually large and unbroken fields, and have a much more mixed chemical composition than volcanic materials spewed up from within the Earth.

Io, unusually, is heated by solid flexing due to the tidal influence of Jupiter and Io's orbital resonance with neighboring large moons Europa and Ganymede, which keeps its orbit slightly eccentric.

About half of El Niño events persist sufficiently into the spring months for the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool ( WHWP ) to become unusually large in summer.

They are less versatile, as the fire cannot be reshaped to accommodate large or unusually shaped pieces ;.

Also, some surgeons believe that radioiodine treatment is unsafe in patients with unusually large gland, or those whose eyes have begun to bulge from their sockets, fearing that the massive dose of radioiodine 131 needed will only exacerbate the patient's symptoms.

In Cumberland, " hoozer " meant anything unusually large, such as a hill.

One of the authors, who was kayaking in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Monroe County, Arkansas, on 11 February 2004, reported on a website the sighting of an unusually large red-crested woodpecker.

The jury's severely worded rejection of Manet's painting appalled his admirers, and the unusually large number of rejected works that year perturbed many French artists.

Eels are found in Loch Ness, and an unusually large eel would fit many sightings.

The play's brevity and certain aspects of its staging ( for instance, the large proportion of night-time scenes and the unusually large number of off-stage sounds ) have been taken as suggesting that the text now extant was revised for production indoors, perhaps at the Blackfriars Theatre, which the King's Men acquired in 1608.

* Neodymium has an unusually large specific heat capacity at liquid-helium temperatures, so is useful in cryocoolers

Degen noted, however, Abel's unusually sharp mind, and believed that such a talented young man should not waste his abilities on such a " sterile object " as the fifth degree equation, but rather on elliptic functions and transcendence ; for then, writes Degen, he will " discover Magellanian thoroughfares to large portions of a vast analytical ocean ".

The peptide group is uncharged at all normal pH values, but its double-bonded resonance form gives it an unusually large dipole moment, roughly 3. 5 Debye ( 0. 8 electron-angstrom ).

Birds have unusually large flocculi compared with other animals, but these only occupy between 1 and 2 % of total brain mass.

Sixtus created an unusually large number of cardinals during his pontificate ( twenty-three ), drawn from the roster of the princely houses of Italy, France and Spain ; thus ensuring that many of his policies continued after his death:

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He had nothing much to say to her but that he said anything seemed to please her and he accompanied her on some of her unusually searching tours of Tokyo.

Such repair work, a reduction in height, and unusually high snowmelt and heavy spring rains combined to cause the dam to give way on May 31, 1889 resulting in twenty million tons of water to sweep down the valley causing the Johnstown Flood.

Based on data from marine magnetic profiles, a pulse of unusually rapid plate motion begins at the same time as the first pulse of Deccan flood basalts, which is dated at 67 Myr ago.

In July of that year, Fermi submitted his doctoral thesis Un teorema di calcolo delle probabilità ed alcune sue applicazioni ( A theorem on probability and some of its applications ) to the Scuola Normale Superiore and received his Laurea from there at the unusually young age of 21.

On the other hand, what some physicists refer to as " apparent " or " effective " FTL depends on the hypothesis that unusually distorted regions of spacetime might permit matter to reach distant locations in less time than light could in normal or undistorted spacetime.

In 2002, the first bud appeared unusually early, on 7 February, and then again on 29 December of the same year.

Because of its mission statement, Harvey Mudd College places an unusually strong emphasis on general science education, requiring a full one-third of math, science, and engineering courses, known as the " common core ," outside of one's major.

Later as president, Madison was told by some of his former constituents that, had it not been for unusually bad weather on election day, Monroe likely would have won.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

Then the natural dam on the Goulburn River failed, the lake drained, and the Murray River avulsed to the south and started to flow through the smaller Goulburn River channel, creating " The Barmah Choke " and " The Narrows " ( where the river channel is unusually narrow ), before entering into the proper Murray River channel again.

In a study conducted on patients with Williams Syndrome ( a genetic disorder causing low intelligence ), he found that even though their intelligence was that of young children they still possessed unusually high level of musical ability.

Somewhat unusually for Popes of the era, Clement IX did not have his name displayed on monuments he built.

Soft tissue impressions also showed unusually long, sharp, and recurved keratin sheaths on its claws.

Reed is known for its mandatory freshman humanities program, for its required senior-year thesis, as the only private undergraduate college with a primarily student-run nuclear reactor supporting its science programs, and for the unusually high proportion of graduates who go on to earn PhDs and other postgraduate degrees.

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was caused by rubber O-rings that were being used well below their glass transition temperature on an unusually cold Florida morning, and thus could not flex adequately to form proper seals between sections of the two solid-fuel rocket boosters.

The remainder of his family was of Scottish descent, and both his mother's father's parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife ( unusually, for a speaker of the language ) and Uig on the Isle of Skye.

The exoskeleton of all velvet ants is unusually tough ( to the point that some entomologists have reported difficulty piercing them with steel pins when attempting to mount them for display in cabinets ).

It uses a guyed lattice steel mast with an unusually large rectangular cross section.

The shrine also has very large prayer wheels and unusually large size sacred scriptures.

* alloy wheels, often unusually large for the respective car, with matching low-section, wide-base tyres

Franco Scaglione handled these with particular genius-first by incorporating a hood scoop to lower the surrounding sheet metal, and then by incorporating sharply creased fender lines out over the wheels to draw the eye's attention away from the unusually tall peak in the hood.

The carriage itself was made of wicker, had unusually big wheels and looked like a lampshade upside down.

Rather than add the extra length within the body to increase passenger space ( as was customary on sedans ) the G-body ( also known as the A-body Special ) spliced the extra length between the firewall and the front wheels, creating an unusually long hood.

With this in mind, the class were unusually provided with extra braking on the bogies and trailing wheels.

This rule is occasionally broken where a very large number of spokes is used or the wheel is unusually small in diameter, either of which reduce the amount of bending stress on each radial spoke to an acceptable degree ; some BMX bicycles and low-riders use radial spoking for both wheels.