The hands and their bosses saw him as a lone knight of the range, waging a dedicated crusade against a lawless new society that was threatening a beloved way of life.

Leading his pony, he hurried that way, not remounting till he was well below the level of the surrounding range.

From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

A bridged-T type of bridge was used in the 10 - 16 Mc/sec range.

In series 1, the relative light intensity was varied by varying the distance of the lamp from the reaction cell over the range from 14.7 to 29.2 cm..

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

-- An extensive series of measurements was made on a high-density polyethylene in a torsion pendulum instrument using forced sinusoidal oscillation, free vibration, and creep measurements over the temperature range of Af to 80-degrees-C.

No, Bari was out of range.

To hold a herd of cattle on a new range till they felt at home was called `` locatin' '' 'em.

Such marchin' in wholesale numbers was called a `` drift '', or `` winter drift '', and if the storm was prolonged it usually resulted in one of the tragedies of the range.

but when a large number were `` bunched up '' or `` banded up '', and marched away from their home range, as long as they stayed together the group was said to be a `` drift ''.

The wholesale death of cattle as a result of blizzards, and sometimes droughts, over a wide range of territory was called a `` die-up ''.

The terminology of the range, in speakin' of `` dry stock '' and `` wet stock '', was confusin' to the tenderfoot.

`` Shootin' 'em out '' was gettin' cattle out of a corral onto the range.

After a roundup the pushin' of stray cattle of outside brands toward their home range was called `` throwin' over ''.

Countin' each grazin' bunch of cattle where it was found on the range and driftin' it back so that it didn't mix with the uncounted cattle was called a `` range count ''.

An argument with Orville Torrence Killpath was as frustrating and as futile as a cap pistol on a firing range.

Presently they had to give up running the furnace at full capacity and depend on the old coal range in the kitchen, which had never been removed when the new gas range was installed, and the fireplaces and an electric heater in Grandma's room.

Dramatic lowering of sea level during the last glacial period uncovered extensive stretches of continental shelf that the Komodo dragon colonized, becoming isolated in their present island range as sea levels rose afterwards.

This has always been so to a limited extent ; individuals of the migratory American Black ducks which winter in the Mottled Duck's range may occasionally stay there and mate with the resident species, and for the Mallard, which colonized North America later, the same holds true ( McCracken et al.

Recent observations suggest that populations at the leading edge of the expanding range undergo an establishment phase before they can contribute to the local invasion, perhaps because newly colonized populations are suffering from inbreeding depression.

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

U-19 was twice the size of the first German submarine, had five times the range at 7, 600 sm cruising at 8 knots, or 15 knots maximum.

* David Eastman convicted of the murder of Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Colin Winchester whom he shot twice in the head at point blank range in the driveway of Winchester's home in Deakin, ACT.

There are no weight divisions in sumo, and considering the range of body weights in sumo, an individual wrestler can sometimes face an opponent twice his own weight.

On 20 March 1913, while travelling with a group of friends to Peking, Song Jiaoren was shot twice at close range by a lone gunman, Ying Kuicheng, at a Shanghai railway station.

Transfemoral and transhumeral prosthetics cost approximately twice as much with a range of $ 10, 000 to $ 15, 000 and can sometimes reach costs of $ 35, 000.

The saline conditions tolerated by various mangrove species range from brackish water, through pure seawater ( 30 to 40 ppt ), to water concentrated by evaporation to over twice the salinity of ocean seawater ( up to 90 ppt ).

Early WWII-era uncapped AP projectiles fired from high-velocity guns were able to penetrate about twice their caliber at close range ( 100 m ).

While travelling with a group of friends to the Parliament in Beijing, Song Jiaoren was shot twice at close range by a lone gunman, Ying Kuicheng, at a Shanghai railway station on March 20, 1913, and died two days later in hospital.

In a sample of 1000 observations, the presence of up to five observations deviating from the mean by more than three times the standard deviation is within the range of what can be expected, being less than twice the expected number and hence within 1 standard deviation of the expected number – see Poisson distribution, and not indicative of an anomaly.

It is smaller on average than the Canada lynx, with which it shares parts of its range, but is about twice as large as the domestic cat.

Such sine wave clocks are often differential signals, because this type of signal has twice the slew rate, and therefore half the timing uncertainty, of a single-ended signal with the same voltage range.

He has sung with The Watersons since 1972, was twice a member of the UK electric folk group Steeleye Span, was a member of the Albion Country Band 1973 line-up, with members from the Fairport Convention family and John Kirkpatrick, that recorded the Battle of the Field album, and was part of the innovative Brass Monkey ensemble, which mixed a range of brass instruments with Carthy's guitar and mandolin and John Kirkpatrick's accordion, melodeon and concertina.

In the temperate parts of its range, groups are perhaps apart, while individual territories within each group may be as small as but more typically are about twice that size.

The Red-necked grebe has a large range, estimated at 1 – 10 million square kilometres ( 0. 4 – 3. 8 million square miles ), and a global population of 150, 000 – 370, 000 individuals, with P. g. holboellii about twice as numerous as the nominate race.

Although both the Chilean and Peruvian ironclads seemed evenly matched, the Chilean ironclads had twice the armor and greater range and hitting power.

It is larger than the bobcat, with which it shares parts of its range, and over twice the size of the domestic cat.

Like the earlier RCA tape cartridge it contained 6 mm ( 0. 25 in ) tape running at 9. 5 cm / s ( 3. 75 in / s ), twice the width and twice the speed of a standard cassette, providing greater frequency response and dynamic range with lower high-frequency noise than the compact cassette.

The Syrian missile-boats were equipped with Soviet manufactured P-15 Termit ( NATO reporting name: SS-N-2 Styx ) anti-ship missiles with twice the range of the Israeli Gabriel anti-ship missiles.

The female can be more than twice as heavy, averaging with a range of.

Remarkably, this apparently weakly flying bird is not only the only species with a purely sub-Saharan African range to have reached Great Britain, but has done so twice.

Mammalian prey can range in size from tiny pocket mice to the white-tailed jackrabbit, weighing about twice as much as a Ferruginous Hawk, and avian prey can range in size from meadowlarks to the Greater Sage-Grouse.