But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??

The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

Each man, that is, is both one and many.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

She's been in and out of my house for a dozen years now, although she's still a teen-ager who looks like a baby, she is getting married.

she is the unattainable beauty, the princess who turns away suitors by the dozen.

The necessity is not clear to me, and, in any case, to present a case-hardened race-driver as saying he has left his car, which, or whom, he calls `` Giuseppe '', parked `` on the Place Vendome sneering at a dozen Bentleys and Rolls-Royces parked around him '' is not a liberty ; ;

In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.

While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.

" They will abuse bar staff, half a dozen a night, normally gangs of blokes, the marketing is directed at yobbos ," one bar owner told The Age newspaper.

One way to understand the meaning of the term " mole " is to compare and contrast it to terms such as dozen.

More than a dozen types of trees are felled, but 95 percent of the total is composed of obeche, sapele, ebony, and sipo.

Ferry services to Italian cities of Venice, Ancona, Pescara and Bari from around a dozen of Croatian sea ports, most notably Rovinj, Rijeka, Zadar, Split, Korčula and Dubrovnik, is available on a daily or weekly basis.

Even the pound is used in nearly a dozen different countries, all, of course, with wildly differing values.

The treatment of larger molecules that contain a few dozen electrons is computationally tractable by approximate methods such as density functional theory ( DFT ).

The clarinet family is the largest woodwind family, with more than a dozen types, ranging from the ( extremely rare )

The number twelve ( that is, the number written as " 12 " in the base ten numerical system ) is instead written as " 10 " in duodecimal ( meaning " 1 dozen and 0 units ", instead of " 1 ten and 0 units "), whereas the digit string " 12 " means " 1 dozen and 2 units " ( i. e. the same number that in decimal is written as " 14 ").

As of March 2009, there are three forks, one of which is dbndns, the fork of the Debian Project, and more than a dozen patches to address shortcomings exist.

Picocells are small cells whose coverage diameter is a few dozen metres ; they are mainly used indoors.

India is made up of several dozen ethnic groups, speaking their own languages and dialects, having distinct cultural traditions.

Benny Morris adds that ' he Israelis ' collective memory of fighters characterized by " purity of arms " is also undermined by the evidence of dozen case of rapes committed in conquered towns and villages.

Jainism is presently a strong faith in the United States, and several dozen Jain temples have been built there, primarily by the Gujarati community.

Whale directed over a dozen films in other genres, including what is considered the definitive film version of the musical Show Boat ( 1936 ).