And the stiffly regal look of them, she saw grimly, lacked the quaver of age which, thwarting the efforts of her amazing will, ran through her spoken words like a thin ragged string.

Her words jumbled together and she all but ran from the office and from the question in Rev's face.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

The PDP-1 was supplied standard with 4096 words of core memory, 18-bits per word, and ran at a basic speed of 100, 000 operations per second.

Finally, in a period when most plays ran for two hours or so, the full text of Hamlet — Shakespeare's longest play, with 4, 042 lines, totalling 29, 551 words — takes over four hours to deliver.

" Sartre would also compliment Guevara by professing that " he lived his words, spoke his own actions and his story and the story of the world ran parallel.

During the next nine days, as their supplies ran out, with frozen fingers, little light, and storms still raging outside the tent, Scott wrote his final words, although he gave up his diary after 23 March, save for a final entry on 29 March, with its concluding words: " Last entry.

1500 ) Scottish words for the type of truck used in coal mines and the tracks on which they ran, probably derived from Middle Flemish tram " beam, handle of a barrow, bar, rung ", a North Sea Germanic word of unknown origin meaning the beam or shaft of a barrow or sledge, also the barrow itself.

When the mayor of New York, Rudolf Giuliani, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, PETA ran a photograph of him with a white mustache and the words " Got prostate cancer?

Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 ( 1958 ) computer at MIT, which had 64k of 36-bit words.

Kovacs also went outside of the studio for some of his sketches, running through a downtown Philadelphia restaurant in a gorilla suit in one, and looking into a construction pit saying it was deep enough to see to China, when a man in Chinese clothing popped up, said a few words in the language, and ran off.

Moe heard Martinez as he ran past shouting " I got him ," and relayed his words to the APD radio dispatcher hand-held radio.

The earliest Greek inscriptions used interpuncts, as was common in the writing systems which preceded it, but soon the practice of scriptio continua, continuous writing in which all words ran together without separation became common.

The machine's 48-bit processor ran at 10 MHz clock speed and featured two instruction pipelines, separate for the control and arithmetic units, and a data cache of 16 48-bit words.

The band's name is a play on words of the Grand Trunk Railroad, a railroad line that ran through the band's home town of Flint, Michigan.

To achieve the unique sound he wanted for the film, Manfredini spoke the two words " harshly, distinctly and rhythmically into a microphone " and ran them into an echo reverberation machine.

For the rest of his life, Dick explored the philosophical implications and hypothesized about the origins of the experience, in a journal which eventually ran to hundreds of thousands of words.

Typical confessions ran into thousands of words in which the prisoner would interweave true events in their lives with imaginary accounts of their espionage activities for the CIA, the KGB, or Vietnam.

The words, which in the musical are those of the minister Stephen Kumalo at the depth of his desperation, tell how God once " held all the stars in the palm of his hand " " and they ran through his fingers like grains of sand, and one little star fell alone.

Absorbed by Clan Smoke Jaguar for attempting to use their words of Nicholas Kerensky to sidestep a Grand Council ruling that ran against them and to justify their actions and defend actions considered by their fellow Clans to be " un-clanlike " Being then deemed unfit to rule, by the Grand Council, the Council called a Trial of Absorption.

In other words, Orage successfully ran a forum which at least assumed ( and perhaps created ) a commonality between the seemingly unfathomable philosophies and artistic practices then being created.

Typical confessions ran into thousands of words in which the prisoner would interweave true events in their lives with imaginary accounts of their espionage activities for the CIA, the KGB, or Vietnam.

From his Senate seat, he then ran a powerful political machine, using A. D. Watts " to keep the machine oiled back home ," in the words of one journalist.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

On it was a big picture of a dog's head and the words " Dog Cookies.

Linguists of the Romanian Academy reacted by declaring that all the Moldovan words were also Romanian words ; while in Moldova, the head of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Ion Bărbuţă, described the dictionary as a politically motivated " absurdity ".

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Loan words from the Irish language provide for a large amount of words unique to Hiberno-English, particularly in an official state capacity ( e. g. the head of government, the Taoiseach, and the parliament itself, the Oireachtas ).

The other Knights are of normal human proportions and act as a chorus, only repeating words and phrases that the head Knight has spoken.

When Rex Ryan was hired as the team's head coach, the rivalry further escalated due to an increased war of words between both teams.

When Rex Ryan became New York's head coach, there was an increased war of words between the clubs culminating with Ryan flashing an obscene gesture to heckling Dolphins fans in January 2010.

However, this should be differentiated from the words used for the head of the Catholic Church ( Bulgarian " папа " papa, Russian " папа римский " papa rimskiy ).

As before, she is created by Hephaestus, but now more gods contribute to her completion ( 63 – 82 ): Athena taught her needlework and weaving ( 63 – 4 ); Aphrodite " shed grace upon her head and cruel longing and cares that weary the limbs " ( 65 – 6 ); Hermes gave her " a shameful mind and deceitful nature " ( 67 – 8 ); Hermes also gave her the power of speech, putting in her " lies and crafty words " ( 77 – 80 ) ; Athena then clothed her ( 72 ); next she, Persuasion and the Charites adorned her with necklaces and other finery ( 72 – 4 ); the Horae adorned her with a garland crown ( 75 ).

The assumption behind this theory is that syntactic properties of phrases reflect the meanings of the words that head them.

JIC members John Scarlett and Sir Richard Dearlove ( then head of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service ) gave evidence to the Inquiry in which they argued that the words used in the dossier were consistent with their assessment of the intelligence available at the time.

His lifework was based on his conviction that the Church was founded by God and entrusted with the task of embracing all mankind in a single society in which divine will is the only law ; that, in her capacity as a divine institution, she is supreme over all human structures, especially the secular state ; and that the pope, in his role as head of the Church, is the vice-regent of God on earth, so that disobedience to him implies disobedience to God: or, in other words, a defection from Christianity.

In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.

The view that it is Harold is supported by the fact that the words Harold Rex ( King Harold ) appear right above the figure's head.

In his own words after the siege of Drogheda, " When they submitted, their officers were knocked on the head, and every tenth man of the soldiers killed and the rest shipped to Barbados.

Twi ' leks speak their own language, Ryl, which incorporates spoken words and a form of sign language, using subtle manipulations of the tips of their lekku ( head tails ).

The curse was detailed in 1, 069 words, beginning: " I curse their head and all the hairs of their head ; I curse their face, their brain ( innermost thoughts ), their mouth, their nose, their tongue, their teeth, their forehead, their shoulders, their breast, their heart, their stomach, their back, their womb, their arms, their leggs, their hands, their feet and every part of their body, from the top of their head to the soles of their feet, before and behind, within and without.

On a sweet but haunting end note, the patient whispers " Thank you " -- her decapitated head mouthing the words, which are distortedly heard from the throat jutting from her headless body.