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whole and length
Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.
I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.
Each course is laid the whole length of the wall, overlapping at the corners on a layer of adobe mortar.
Its total length from its source to its junction with the Rhine comprises about 295 km ( 183 miles ), during which distance it descends, draining an area of, including the whole of central Switzerland.
The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished ( 2 Samuel 2: 12 ).
They did not dawdle at the hour of decision but attacked quickly, using a massive series of short, rapid, vicious charges against the length of the whole Roman line, with charging units sometimes withdrawing to the forest to regroup while others took their place.
The whole territory, from the junction of the Kokcha river with the Amu Darya on the north-east to the province of Herat on the south-west, was some in length, with an average width from the Russian frontier to the Hindu Kush of 114 miles ( 183 km ).
There is however not always a one-on-one relationship between the two numbering systems along the whole length of the highways.
The relation he there gives of the miracle is as follows: " On the nones ( or 7th ) of May, about the third hour, ( or nine in the morning ,) a vast luminous body, in the form of a cross, appeared in the heavens, just over the holy Golgotha, reaching as far as the holy mount of Olivet, ( that is, almost two English miles in length ,) seen not by one or two persons, but clearly and evidently by the whole city.
had bilateral lesions of the CA1 cell region along the whole length of the hippocampus.
The made-up embankment which today extends the whole length of the town's riverbank is the result of 19th century land reclamation, started in earnest when the town played host to a large number of prisoners of war from the Napoleonic Wars which formed a captive workforce.
All this was simple compared to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), in which four parallel stories are intercut throughout the whole length of the film, though in this case the stories are more similar than contrasting in their nature.
Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.
Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made ( particle physics ) to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole ( cosmology ).
New U-Bahn and S-Bahn lines were planned to run directly beneath almost the whole length of the axis, and the city's entire underground network reoriented to gravitate towards this new hub ( at least one tunnel section, around 220 metres in length, was actually constructed and still exists today, buried some 20 metres beneath the Tiergarten, despite having never seen a train ).
This kind of performance for variable-length keys can be achieved by grouping all of the keys that have the same length together and separately performing an LSD radix sort on each group of keys for each length, from shortest to longest, in order to avoid processing the whole list of keys on every sorting pass.
Though typically flat the whole length on heavy duty trucks, the rails may sometimes be tapered or arched for clearance around the engine or over the axles.
Olympic and World Championship velodromes must measure 250 m. Other events on the UCI International Calendar may be held in velodromes that measure between 133 m and 500 m, with a length such that a whole or half number of laps give a distance of 1 km.
of symbols from, of some length, multiplied in G. The string of length 0 ( null string ) stands for the identity element e of G. The crux of the whole problem is to be able to recognise all the ways e can be represented, given some relations.
:"… there is no part of the millet that does not make a sound: for there is no reason why any such part should not in any length of time fail to move the air that the whole bushel moves in falling.

whole and Essex
Greater London covered the whole County of London and most of Middlesex, plus parts of Essex, Kent and Surrey, a small part of Hertfordshire and the County Boroughs of Croydon ( Surrey ) and East and West Ham ( both in Essex ), all of which had been independent of county council control since 1889.
The Parliamentary ordinance that was passed proclaimed Essex to be: " Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Army appointed to be raised, and of all other Forces of the Kingdom ... and that he the said Earl shall have and enjoy all Power, Titles, Preheminence, Authority, Jurisdiction, and Liberties, incident and belonging to the said Office of Captain-General, throughout the whole Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, in as large and ample a Manner as any other General of an Army in this Kingdom hath lawfully used exercised, and enjoyed.
The whole area was included in the London Borough of Havering in 1965 and it was transferred from Essex to Greater London.
The question was again raised after the Restoration, during the viceroyalty of Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, whose report to the king gives the best general account of the whole affair.
During these meetings, Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex and George Savile, 1st Earl of Halifax argued that the powers of a Catholic successor could be limited, but Shaftesbury argued that that would change " the whole government, and set up a democracy instead of a monarchy.
Originally, the BBC London and the South East region took in the whole of Greater London, together with parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Bedfordshire, and Oxfordshire.
Essex himself escaped by sea, but Major-General Philip Skippon, his second in command, had to surrender with the whole of the foot on 2 September 1644.
When the vote of the majority had determined what was to be done, Essex, as lord general of the Parliament's first army, was to issue the necessary orders for the whole.

whole and bridge
The bridge was inaugurated 1 July 2000, and measures 8 kilometres ( the whole link totalling 16 km ), with pylons reaching 204. 5 metres vertically.
Motorway and other Infrastructure Tolling: The term tolling is used for charging a well-defined special and comparatively costly infrastructure, like a bridge, a tunnel, a mountain pass, a motorway concession or the whole motorway network of a country.
Caesar constructed a bridge and began to harass Afranius ' forces with his whole army.
In 2003, the weight of crowds travelling to and from the Ashton Court festival and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta put such great strain on the bridge that it was decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, during the whole of the Ashton Court Festival and part of the Balloon Fiesta in 2004.
The whole advance would be led by a troop of Reconnaissance jeeps from the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, under Major Frederick Gough on Leopard who would attempt a coup de main on the road bridge.
In 1299 Edward I " Hammer of the Scots ", took his whole court to the manor-house at Sheen, a little east of the bridge and on the riverside, and it thus became a royal residence.
In his Translator's Preface, Müller wrote, " The bridge of thoughts and sighs that spans the whole history of the Aryan world has its first arch in the Veda, its last in Kant's Critique .… While in the Veda we may study the childhood, we may study in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the perfect manhood of the Aryan mind .… The materials are now accessible, and the English-speaking race, the race of the future, will have in Kant's Critique another Aryan heirloom, as precious as the Veda — a work that may be criticised, but can never be ignored.
Permission was granted by Parliament to raise the projected replacement costs of £ 484, 000 ( about £ as of ) from rates across the whole of London rather than only local residents, as a new bridge was considered to be of benefit to the whole of London.
The centre of the bridge was provided with a tented pavilion 60 yards long and spanning its whole width.
By the 1920s the problems had increased, with settlement at pier five necessitating closure of the whole bridge while some heavy superstructure was removed and temporary reinforcements put in place.
In 2005-2007 it underwent a complete refurbishment, including replacing the iron fascias and repainting the whole bridge.
It is possible to walk along virtually the whole length of the former route from very near the site of the old station in Brightlingsea along the old embankment to the site of the former swing bridge.
The complex as a whole is named for the street that feeds into it on the D. C. end ( carrying northbound US 1 off the bridge ), 14th Street.
However, The cycle lanes do not cover the whole length of the bridge, forcing cyclists to ride in traffic when entering the bridge from Chelsea.
Four steel ladder masts anchor the glass box and the whole gives the impression of a suspension bridge that stretches into the distance.
Frederick decided to march north with his whole force, right in front of the Austrians, cross the Striegau by a bridge just west of town, and attack the Saxons first.
Lady Windsor would spend the whole day by the bridge, reading or knitting.
During that year, $ 30. 1 million was allocated for acquisition of right-of-way, grading work and overpass / bridge construction across the whole length of the highway.
In the comics this is explained in detail: the Sentinel Prime's subspace bridge was a more sophisticated and powerful version of the Decepticon one, which was discontinued after some time because it was too inefficient, compared to the third-model Space Bridge which can transport anything from starships to armies and even whole worlds instead of " just " a few dozen tons of matter across space-time.
The bridge also acts a meeting place for local people, as it has a waist height shelf spanning the whole structure which facilitates sitting and admiring the view. Increasingly it is used as a circular walk from the city centre taking in the New Walk on the east bank and Terry Avenue and Rowntree Park on the west bank.
The next song was " Series of Dreams ", and " although Lanois liked the song, he liked the bridge better, wanted the whole song to be like that ", wrote Dylan.

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