There was only one way to accomplish this: by design, by drawing diagrams and sketches in which he probed the remotest corner of his mind for creative ideas to carry his concept.

Mark row on which first stitches have been bound off for armhole by drawing a contrasting colored thread through it.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

This question might be settled by comparing the measurement of the actual circumference with the dimensions noted, presumably in Brumidi's hand, above the various sections of his long preparatory drawing, which has been kept.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

A valuable pencil-and-sepia allegorical drawing of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Honore Fragonard has been donated by the art dealer Georges Wildenstein and now hangs in the Blue Room.

Just as it is possible to exaggerate the drawing power of the new tenure practices, it is also possible to exaggerate the significance of the now relatively adequate salaries paid by major Catholic institutions.

It is the spirit which is the source of a community's drawing power by means of which others are drawn into it from the world outside so that the community grows and prospers.

We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage.

This works by drawing the infected pus to the surface of the skin before rupturing and leaking out.

In strict analysis, abbreviations should not be confused with contractions or acronyms ( including initialisms ), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term " abbreviation " in loose parlance. An abbreviation is a shortening by any method ; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts.

* A landscape pen-and-ink drawing by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, c 1650, to which Algardi has added figures of the Holy Family ( Getty Museum )

Père Ubu ( later: Ubu Roi ), from a drawing by Alfred Jarry

It is natively supported by most operating systems / GUIs for drawing windows ( where applicable ) or widgets:

As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

* A very High resolution monochrome video card with blitter and hardware text line and arc drawing capability, was designed for CAD applications, based on the NEC µPD7220 chip designed for graphic terminals, but was also used by some personal computers like the DEC Rainbow, and notably also for the Tulip System I.

Note: in a galvanic cell, contrary to what occurs in an electrolytic cell, no anions flow to the anode, the internal current being entirely accounted for by the cations flowing away from it ( cf drawing ).

After completing his short film Vincent in 1982, then-Disney animator Burton wrote three-page poem titled The Nightmare Before Christmas, drawing inspiration from television specials of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

It was, of course, in this drawing of the balance sheet of judgment that he most clearly displayed his desire to do full justice to an author.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

The potters, in particular, had virtually eschewed freehand drawing, elaborate motifs, and the curving lines of nature, while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

An important formative influence was his elementary school teacher Mr Tachikawa, whose progressive educational practices ignited in his young pupil first a love of drawing and then an interest in education in general.

Although page flipping was a hardware possibility, the limited memory forced most applications to do all their drawing directly to the visible screen, often resulting in graphical flicker or visible redraw.

was also on the drawing board.

In 1870 he was appointed a member of the commission for drawing up a maritime and commercial code, and the navigation law of 1882 is mainly his work.

A self-portrait, a drawing in silverpoint, is dated 1484 ( Albertina, Vienna ) “ when I was a child ," as his later inscription says.

However most of his best prints are etchings, many of landscapes ; in these he was able most easily to use his drawing style.

A Cuyp drawing may look like he intended it to be a finished work of art, but it was most likely taken back to the studio and used as a reference for his paintings.

The Lynx was also the first gaming console with hardware support for zooming / distortion of sprites, allowing fast pseudo-3D games with unrivaled quality at the time and a capacity for drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention.

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

Due to the long radio aerials stretching from the wireless room, the radio station was moved from Bletchley Park to nearby Whaddon Hall to avoid drawing attention to the site.

One of these was his De arte metrica, a discussion of the composition of Latin verse, drawing on previous grammarians work.

After the success of vaccination in preventing smallpox, scientists thought to find a corollary in tuberculosis by drawing a parallel between bovine tuberculosis and cowpox: It was hypothesized that infection with bovine tuberculosis might protect against infection with human tuberculosis.

A fan contest, drawing 33, 288 voters, was then held to determine the team's name.

Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.

His drawing of ' An unequal match ', published in Punch on 8 October 1881, depicted a police officer fighting a criminal with only a ' baton ' for protection, trying to put a point across to the public that policing methods needed to be changed.

In 1900, Baum published a book about window displays in which he stressed the importance of mannequins in drawing customers.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection ( Crippen & Landru, 2010 ) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk / Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

In Thrones, Dominations, the last, unfinished novel by Sayers, completed by Jill Paton Walsh, the Author's Note states that Harriet Vane published a monograph on Sheridan Le Fanu in 1946, drawing on this research.

In his 1870 essay " On the Graphical Representation of Supply and Demand ", Fleeming Jenkin in the course of " introduc the diagrammatic method into the English economic literature " published the first drawing of supply and demand curves therein, including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the labor market.

A drawing of a wasabi plant, published in 1828 by Iwasaki Kanen

His drawing, the first such known of the Orion nebula, was published in Systema Saturnium in 1659.

In 1555, Olaus Magnus published a drawing of a fish-like creature with a " horn " on its forehead.

However, there were several differences between the original game concept and that initially published in 1949, In particular, Pratt's original design calls for ten characters, one of whom was to be designated the victim by random drawing prior to the start of the game.

In that year, Gautier, drawing upon Deburau's newly acquired audacity as a Pierrot, as well as upon the Romantics ’ store of Shakespearean plots and of Don-Juanesque legend, published a " review " of a pantomime he claimed to have seen at the Funambules.

In 1555, Olaus Magnus published a drawing of a fish-like creature with a horn on its forehead, correctly identifying it as a " Narwal ".

* Patrick-Gilles Maillot's Thesis an extension of the Bresenham line drawing algorithm to perform 3D hidden lines removal ; also published in MICAD ' 87 proceedings on CAD / CAM and Computer Graphics, page 591-ISBN 2-86601-084-1.

Paley, arguing more than fifty years before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, held that the complexity of living organisms was evidence of the existence of a divine creator by drawing a parallel with the way in which the existence of a watch compels belief in an intelligent watchmaker.

Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story " Royal Feast " in issue No. 84 ( June 1978 ), and " Endless Cloud " in No. 85 ( July 1978 ).

While Beck oversaw the visual aspects of the various comics featuring Captain Marvel, he emphatically stated in an interview with Tom Heintjes published in Hogan's Alley # 3 that he and his fellow artists had no input or influence on the scripts they illustrated, noting " In the 13 years I spent drawing Captain Marvel, I wrote only one story, about Billy ’ s trip to a Mayan temple, which had to be submitted in typed form and edited and approved before I was allowed to illustrate it.

Examples include " Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern )" ( 1880, charcoal drawing ) by K. Ehrenberg, and the poem " Einheriarne " ( published in Nordens Guder, 1819 ) by A. Oehlenschläger, and " Braga " ( 1771 ) by Klopstock.

However, in 1996 the first edition of British Defence Doctrine ( BDD ) was published, drawing heavily of the BMD.

Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, drawing from eleven sources included the tale in their collection " Deutsche Sagen ", first published in 1816.

Purchasing and reading guidebooks became an increasingly important part of visiting castles ; by the 1820s visitors could buy an early guidebook at Goodrich outlining the castle's history, the first guidebook to the Tower of London was published in 1841 and Scottish castle guidebooks became well known for providing long historical accounts of their sites, often drawing on the plots of Romantic novels for the details.

A recent report, published in December 2007, from Global Action Plan, a UK-based environmental organisation found that computer servers are " at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global aviation industry " drawing attention to the carbon footprint of the IT industry in the UK.

A drawing of the entrance to the market hall from William Hutton's The History of Birmingham, published in 1836.

He was already known as a climber, as a contributor to Peaks, Passes and Glaciers ( 1862 ), and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club, when in 1871, in commemoration of his own first ascents in the Alps, he published The Playground of Europe, which immediately became a mountaineering classic, drawing – together with Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps – successive generations of its readers to the Alps.

While the first book on caricature drawing to be published in England was Mary Darly's A Book of Caricaturas ( c. 1762 ), the first known North American caricatures were drawn in 1759 during the battle for Quebec.