The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

I must say the figure was well made up.

And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;

According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The figure was wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence.

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.

The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.

Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.

The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.

He may be regarded as an extension of the central figure in archaic cultural life who appeared before us successively as the prophet, medicine-man, seer, thaumaturge and poet and whose best designation is vates .”

* Bars 96-120, ornamented figure similar to that in " Christ lag in Todesbanden " accompanies theme in the soprano then moving successively to alto and bass

Her first test put the alpha branching at 0. 6 %, a figure which she later revised to 1 %.

The logo was revised in late 2005, losing the letter " L " pedestal and introducing a more rounded version of the gold-colored figure.

( The World Bank has revised the figure for 2001 downward from the 3. 9 percent reported in the 2005 Index.

This likely reflects its lack of prominence both in Galilee and in Judaea .” Strange originally calculated the population of Nazareth at the time of Christ to be " roughly 1, 600 to 2, 000 people " but, in a subsequent publication, revised this figure down to “ a maximum of about 480 .” In 2009 Israeli archaeologist Yardenna Alexandre excavated archaeological remains in Nazareth that might date to the time of Jesus in the early Roman period.

For a long time an accepted figure was 15 million, although this has in recent years been revised down.

A revised coat of arms, approved on November 23, 1851, had the golden figure of a lion placed on a red heraldic shield with a spade in the right fore paw and a sickle in the left fore paw, both made of the same metal.

Ptolemy discussed and favored this revised figure of Posidonius over Eratosthenes in his Geographia, and during the Middle Ages scholars divided into two camps regarding the circumference of the earth, identified with Eratosthenes ' calculation on the one hand and Posidonius ' 180, 000-stadium measure on the other.

(* This number was revised to 89, 600 when it was discovered that a dormitory population outside the city was erroneously included in the 92, 325 figure.

Initially, it was recorded that 57 lives were lost ; however, after extensive research by local historians, the figure has been revised upwards to 98.

In February 2009 the figure of overpayment was revised to £ 56 million by HEFCE, who were seeking to recover the money.

In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of $ 1. 25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity ( PPP ).

After Peace Now petitioned the Israeli courts to have the official data released, the group revised the figure to 32. 4 %.

Johnson had also described the lead figure in the Park51 project, Feisal Abdul Rauf, as an " Islamic Supremacist ," but later revised that description from the post without acknowledging the change

After Fisher-Price was bought by Mattel in the 1990s, Little People reappeared on the markets, their figure significantly larger in size from the original Little People characters due to revised toy safety guidelines.

The Red Cross reported a figure of 1, 836 deaths which the National Weather Service initially accepted, but in 2003, the number was revised to " at least 2, 500 ".

After a wide variety of proposed dates, following a revised analysis of the stratigraphy of its site in 1990, the figure has been estimated to have been carved 24, 000 – 22, 000 BCE.

This view is significantly revised in modern independent Ukraine, where he is now viewed as almost an iconic figure with unmatched significance for the Ukrainian nation, a view that has been mostly shared all along by the Ukrainian diaspora that has always revered Shevchenko.

Along with Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside and Heinrich Hertz, FitzGerald was a leading figure among the group of " Maxwellians " who revised, extended, clarified, and confirmed James Clerk Maxwell's mathematical theories of the electromagnetic field during the late 1870s and the 1880s.

French casualties are harder to ascertain — Soult initially declared 2, 800 in his dispatch to Napoleon, but the official figure drawn up on 6 July revised that number upward to 5, 936.

In May 2007 the Home Office forecast a cost rise of £ 400m to £ 5. 3 billion, a figure revised in November 2007 to £ 5. 612bn.

An estimate from the Home Office placed the cost of a 10-year passport and ID card package at £ 85, while after the 2005 general election in May 2005 they issued a revised figure of over £ 93, and announced that a " standalone " ID card would cost £ 30.

With the revised 6. 4-Liter engine, Chrysler engineers cited a quarter mile (~ 400 m ) time of 12. 4 seconds at – bettering the outgoing 6. 1-Liter Hemi by 0. 8 seconds, although that figure has varied wildly between automotive magazines.

The original plan called for 21 German divisions, but that figure was revised downwards to 11 by OKH.

The graphic representation of the Modulor, a stylised human figure with one arm raised, stands next to two vertical measurements, a red series based on the figure's navel height ( 1. 08m in the original version, 1. 13m in the revised version ) then segmented according to Phi, and a blue series based on the figure's entire height, double the navel height ( 2. 16m in the original version, 2. 26m in the revised ), segmented similarly.