On the truck bed there was nothing smaller than a piece of rusty machinery ; ;

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

Human nature was not a piece of meat you could tell was bad by its smell.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;

The head was wrapped in a turban and on top of the turban rode a great hamper across which a piece of poncho had been flung.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.

It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

He was holding the piece of lead pipe out to me.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

She played with style and a touch of the grand manner, and every piece she performed was especially effective in its closing measures.

Every piece of the nightmare was clear, in place ; ;

He described the piece as a " rhapsodic ballet " because it was written freely and is more modern than his previous works.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

Peyote stitch patterns are very easy to depict diagrammatically because they are typically stitched flat and then later incorporated into the piece or left as a flat tapestry.

In September Thomas and Caitlin moved to New Quay in West Wales which inspired Thomas to pen the radio piece Quite Early One Morning, a sketch for his later work, Under Milk Wood.

Liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played ( first standing ) with the foot of a percussionist and became the central piece around which every other percussion instruments would later revolve.

Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).

The piece was later expanded into a full opera, with music by Satie, Poulenc and Ravel.

Amiot tried to impress mandarins in Beijing with Rameau's harpsichord piece Les sauvages, a suite that was later reworked as part of Rameau's opera-ballet Les Indes galantes.

Adams later arranged this piece for string orchestra.

In Japanese, the scabbard for a nihontō is referred to as a saya, and the handguard piece, often intricately designed as an individual work of art — especially in later years of the Edo period — was called the tsuba.

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.

Although the very subject matter caused it to be considered scandalous at the time, its brief revival three decades later, in the open and radicalized culture of the late 1960s, when the author was approaching his 70th birthday, found the once-ahead-of-its-time work judged as a tame and dated period piece below Achard's usual literary standard.

When time is running forward, the piece numbers increment from 0 – 7 ; with the time that piece 0 is transmitted is the coded instant, and the remaining pieces are transmitted later.

The opening of UK's first ever superclub was marked by a nearly 23-minute instrumental piece originally entitled " Prime 5 8 6 ", but released 15 years later as " Video 5 8 6 ".

# Yachatz יחץ – breaking the middle matzo ; the larger piece becomes the afikoman which is eaten later during the ritual of Tzafun

In a later semi-fictional autobiographical piece called Le Roman d ' un rallié, Coubertin describes his relationship with both his mother and his father as having been somewhat strained during his childhood and adolescence.

Sixteen years later, the piece resurfaced as a popular dance track called " Heart of Asia " ( by the group Watergate ).

When the Doctor later discovered clues as to what had happened, Captain Janeway was convinced by him and others that he had a right to learn to come to grips with the guilt in the manner of any other sentient being rather than be treated merely as a defective piece of equipment.

Four months later, it was known throughout the Alpha Quadrant as a very thought-provoking piece of work.

It is also possible for some components of a piece of software to be written and compiled separately, in an arbitrary programming language, and later integrated into the software using a technique called library linking.

Cyanoacrylate glue has a low shearing strength, which has also led to its use as a temporary adhesive in cases where the piece can easily be sheared off at a later time.

Another early problem of buildup of cracks in the stator surface was eliminated by installing the spark plugs in a separate metal piece instead of screwing it directly into the block .. A later alternative solution to spark plug boss cooling was provided by variable coolant velocity scheme for water-cooled rotaries which has had widespread use and was patented by Curtiss-Wright, with the last-listed for better air-cooled engine spark plug boss cooling.

During the harsh winter of 1798 – 99, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude.

O ' Rourke said later that Kenney brought comedy to the piece and he brought the organization.

Tyrol stormed the Pass of Calliano and later besieged the castle at Rovereto using a massive bombard, one of the earliest times such a large piece had been used in warfare.