Dean leaned from the saddle and gave him a mighty whack on the back.

And his relatively small hands and feet gave him an almost delicate appearance.

McBride gave him his opportunity when he showed up in town with a pistol on his hip.

Apparently sensing this, and realizing that it gave him an advantage, Jess became bold.

Russ gave him a brutal thrust that tumbled him over flat on his stomach.

The control tower gave him immediate take-off permission, and the clean roar of the engine that took him off the rough strip spoke well of the skill of Donovan.

His present maximum altitude, up against the overcast, gave him the opportunity to exploit his advantages.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

He thought she gave him that look with the hidden something in it as he let her hand go.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

but Leger, Arp, Lipchitz and Alexander Calder, at the time, gave him their blessing.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

Esther jumped up, ran to him and gave him a little hug.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.

One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows, which gave him inferiority complexes.

He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.

At first the predictions of Einstein's formula were seemingly refuted by a series of experiments by Svedberg in 1906 and 1907, which gave displacements of the particles as 4 to 6 times the predicted value, and by Henri in 1908 who found displacements 3 times greater than Einstein's formula predicted.

Registries of capoeira test practices existed since the 18th century in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, but the huge increase of urban slaves and social life in Brazilian cities gave capoeira a greater notoriety and diffusion capacity.

The invention of wire-wrapped strings in Bologna gave the cello greater versatility.

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

A quickening economic life in Germany increased the number of towns and Imperial cities, and gave them greater importance.

The new constitution of the French Fifth Republic, introduced on 5 October 1958, gave greater powers to the presidency.

Jablonski postulates that increasing body size, in conjunction with intensified hunting during the day at the equator, gave rise to a greater need to rapidly expel heat.

" This reference gave rise to the distinguishing of two forms of jihad: " greater " and " lesser ".

This nevertheless gave the Soviet Army greater strategic flexibility, given the large land area and long borders of the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact.

The thesis put forward by Henri Pirenne, while disputed widely, supposes that the Arab conquests forced the medieval economy into even greater ruralization and gave rise to the classic feudal pattern of varying degrees of servile peasantry underpinning a hierarchy of localized power centers.

In this position he helped reorganise the collective farms, improve workers ' living conditions, expand the size of their private plots, and gave them a greater voice in planning.

Although perestroika did, in fact, cause social unrest, it also gave the Soviet Union a new direction of foreign policy that led to achieving greater political power than ever before.

Archers had long realized that a twist added to the tail feathers of their arrows gave them greater accuracy.

Until recently, globular clusters were the cause of a great mystery in astronomy, as theories of stellar evolution gave ages for the oldest members of globular clusters that were greater than the estimated age of the universe.

In 1996, Parliament passed legislation which gave Tobago greater self-government.

In 1912 he gave an algorithm that solves both the word and conjugacy problem for the fundamental groups of closed orientable two-dimensional manifolds of genus greater than or equal to 2,.

This was followed with the single " She Bangs the Drums ", which gave them a top forty UK hit, and a number one on the UK Independent Chart, and by that point they were receiving much greater press attention and were selling out shows across the country.

Each successive rank gave its holder greater pensions and legal privileges.

Public fears about the negative effects of market reforms gave conservatives ( including Li Peng ) the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influences, especially opposing further expansion of Zhao's more free enterprise-oriented approach.

While, structurally, use of the pointed arch gave a greater flexibility to architectural form, it also gave Gothic architecture a very different and more vertical visual character to Romanesque.

Cross hatching, stippling, and other low abstraction techniques gave greater depth and dimension to the subject matter ".

Such bargaining soon led to the establishment of the system of sharecropping, which gave the freedmen greater economic independence and social autonomy than gang labor.

To help less-affluent landlords, TRA86 gave a $ 25, 000 net rental loss deduction provided that the home was not personally used for the greater of 14 days or 10 % of rental days, and AGI is less than $ 100, 000 ( pro-rated phase-out through $ 150, 000 ).