School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

I had had difficulties from the very first day.

From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.

The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.

Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.

From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Katya Roslev, who would be Katharine Ross so very soon now, rang up her first sale of the day and counted back the change.

On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.

One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.

In their very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, had foreseen this moment.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

But most learn to color and paint as and when they are ready with only a very little demonstration.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

The former Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache has called for changes to the Channel Islands ' relationship with the United Kingdom government, arguing that ' at the very least, we should be ready for independence if we are placed in a position where that course was the only sensible option '.

Living off the land is not very easy when there is no food ready to eat, so there was, in theory at least, a prescribed " campaign season " that aimed to conduct warfare at a predictable time, when there would be both food on the ground and relatively good weather.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

A revolver can be kept loaded and ready to fire without fatiguing any springs and is not very dependent on lubrication for proper firing.

Mitaka quickly declares his intention to court Kyoko and states that he is very patient, and can wait until her heart is ready.

Although photos that were published at the time showed rows of Sheridans ready to defend against Iraqi tanks, they would not have been very effective against the Soviet-designed T-72s which comprised the bulk of the Iraqi Republican Guard.

If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only " ti amo ", I am ready to come and make a film with you.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote of Harold that he " was very tall and handsome, remarkable for his physical strength, his courage and eloquence, his ready jests and acts of valour.

The acid from the maggots ' digestive system breaks down the cheese's fats, making the texture of the cheese very soft ; by the time it is ready for consumption, a typical casu marzu will contain thousands of these maggots.

In a speech to the English Parliament she distanced herself from her late Dutch brother-in-law and said, " As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England.

Trout in, or newly returned from the sea, can look very silvery, while the same fish living in a small stream or in an alpine lake could have pronounced markings and more vivid coloration ; it is also possible that in some species this signifies that they are ready to mate.

Raeder wrote in the Seekriegsleitung war diary on 3 September 1939: " Today the war against England and France, which the Führer had previously assured us we would not have to confront until 1944 and which he believed he could avoid up until the very last minute, began ... As far as the Kriegsmarine is concerned, it is obvious that it is not remotely ready for the titanic struggle against England.

However the machine also took considerable time decoding the vector instructions and getting ready to run the process, so it required very specific data sets to work on before it actually sped anything up.

The team had looked at Self and were very interested in it, but at the time Self was not yet ready for real-world use.

VAZ-2122 received very positive feedback, by 1987 VAZ had finished all development work, and the car was ready for production.

Conein described Minh as a " very proud man " who had lost face by turning up at the palace, ready to claim victory, only to find an empty building.

The ready availability of the stories in book form, and higher rates of literacy ( which the very industry of sokkibon may have helped create, due to these being oral classics that were already known to most people ) may also have helped kill the yose theater, as people no longer needed to see the stories performed in person to enjoy them.

" responded Nelson, and turning to his interpreter said " Tell him that we are ready in a moment ; ready to bombard this very night!