They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

They were an old fat couple ( as Linda Kay described them to herself ), a thick middle-aged man, and a girl about ten or twelve.

They must be persuaded to adopt the other necessary self-help measures which are described in the preceding section.

They echo the words with which he has described his own vision of the dying child who `` trembles and begs for mercy -- and there is no mercy ''.

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

They cite his defense of the Christology described in the first chapter of the Gospel of John and his significant theological works ( C. S.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

They did not call the animal a bunyip, but described the remains indicating the creature as very much like a hippopotamus or manatee.

They were extremely prominent, and observers described them as more easily visible even than the Great Red Spot.

They described large trucks passing through towns at night carrying very long canvas-covered cylindrical objects that could not make turns through towns without backing up and maneuvering.

They show that this model, when optimized for single-step decision making, produces Belief Anchoring and Polarization of opinions-exactly as described in the global warming controversy context-in spite of identical evidence presented, the pre-existing beliefs ( or evidence presented first ) has an overwhelming effect on the beliefs formed.

They have been described as ' a sort of Via Dolorosa in miniature '... since little or no rebuilding took place on the site of the great basilica.

They described the election as lacking credibility.

" They noted that " the law of transformation of quantity into quality ", " holds that a new quality emerges in a leap as the slow accumulation of quantitative changes, long resisted by a stable system, finally forces it rapidly from one state into another ," a phenomenon described in some disciplines as a paradigm shift.

They are easily produced on the euphonium as compared to other brass instruments, and the extent of the range depends on the make of the instrument in exactly the same way as just described.

They were first described by William Buckland in 1829.

They dispatched soldiers and what happened next could only be described as a “ bloodbath .” At least nine hundred Indians were killed and it did not matter whether they were women, children or men.

Scorpionmen are belligerent folk, who look like a sort of scorpion-human centaur. They are described as stupid, vicious and live in violent matriarchies with a religious emphasis on devouring.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

They described it in their Book of Ingenious Devices, mainly for protecting workers in polluted wells.

They are described by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia in great detail.

They can be described as the stomach of the cell.

They are described as bipedal humanoids, with long legs, short torsos, and improbably flexible neck vertebrae.

They offered somewhat different sequences in describing how they and the horses reacted upon seeing the creature.

They have wormlike bodies of 3 to 4 meters in length with two tentacular arms that end in fine tentacles for manipulation and two tentacles that end in paddles that can be used for heavy lifting ( including acting as " legs ", lifting the front of the creature off the ground in a humanoid-like stance ).

They only way to slay the creature with your sword is to slash it according to the horizontal or vertical mouth opening.

They are based on the kappa, a mythical creature from Japanese folklore.

They eventually realize they have been thrown back in time when they see no signs of civilization but spot a huge, plodding creature resembling a classic Brontosaurus.

They are given a bizarre creature named Mokona to guide them on their journey.

They also have the largest eyes of any living creature except perhaps colossal squid – over in diameter.

They wrote that he was " one of the most confusing scientific anomalies " due to " the idea that a creature so potbellied is able to stay afloat for so long ".

They were cast in heroic male roles, alongside another new breed of operatic creature, the prima donna.

Even the cultural norms of her community deny her intellectual and spiritual growth, according to Elizabeth Ermarth, " They are norms according to which she is an inferior, dependent creature who will never go far in anything, and which consequently are a denial of her full humanity.

They will also accept challenges put to them, such as in the tale of the farmer's daughter who was promised to a kappa in marriage by her father in return for the creature irrigating his land.

They return to Walter's store, where they find something wrapped around their truck's back axle: the severed body of a large snakelike creature.

They can be of any alignment, like any creature in Eberron, so a good red dragon ( usually evil ) is as common as an evil gold dragon ( usually good ).

They are in a class of infernal Jinn ( supernatural creature ) noted for their strength and cunning.

They are too unintelligent to hunt food for themselves, often consuming whatever hapless creature they come across, so food is an advantage they get from working with the Orcs.

They will attack any creature that disturbs their nest, but are not as aggressive as the red imported fire ant.

They are taken in wheelchairs to see Lo Pan ( now in the form of a crippled old man ), who claims Miao Yin is " safer with me than any creature on Earth.

They allegedly saw the creature in the afternoon of January 20, 1996: A biped about, with a large head and very thin body, with V-shaped feet, brown skin, and large red eyes.

They captured the dizzy creature, and whisked it away.

They shoot the creature and then gas it to death as it retracts back into Anne's body.

They were overwhelmed by Belasco who further transformed Cat into a more feline demonic creature.

They have the ability to magically disguise themselves as any humanoid or giant creature.

They develop over a free-floating cydippea state, which looks very similar between all ctenophora and sometimes is labeled as a larva, although usually in reality it already represents a miniature version of what the creature will grow up to be.