There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

All we wanted to do was to stand very quietly and look and look and look.

He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.

I knew that both these cynics were waiting with impatience for the dramatic moment when Viola was called to the stand.

No detectable reaction was found at room temperature for reaction mixtures allowed to stand up to 5 hours.

And if he did stand on the margins of modernity, it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom.

You could not stand on dignity when you were soaked and muddied and your life was at stake.

He said no matter what stand he takes it would be misconstrued that he was sympathetic to one or the other of the Republicans.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

Mousie said it was because he was too proud to stand pity.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

Still more different from Bachofen's perspective is the lack of role permanency in Freud's view: Freud held that time and differing cultures would mold Athena to stand for what was necessary to them.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

They also had a flag carrier at the front who guided the forces behind him ; when the flag was upright the combatants behind would stand and when turned down, they would sit.

That influence was based on his relation with the assembly, a relation that in the first instance lay simply in the right of any citizen to stand and speak before the people.

After being informed that the call was indeed from Virginia Thomas, Hill told the media that she did not believe the message was meant to be conciliatory and said, " I testified truthfully about my experience and I stand by that testimony.

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

Together he and Argiento built the stand, covering it with blankets.

The Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier designs.

The ground's first stand was built shortly after.

By 1973, a proper seated stand had been built called the Eric Miller Stand ( one of the directors at the time ).

The term was generally used for ships too small to stand in the line of battle, although early line-of-battle ships were frequently referred to as frigates when they were built for speed.

Two chimneys still stand and the walls of the two sturdily-built incorporating mills with central waterwheels survive well: they were built with substantial walls but flimsy roofs so that in the event of an explosion, the force of the blast would be directed safely upwards.

Under his governorship, numerous buildings were built, a number of which still stand today: part of Government House, the Chateau de Mon Plaisir at Pamplemousses and the Line Barracks.

The first grandstand at the MCG was the original wooden members ’ stand built in 1854, while the first public grandstand was a 200-metre long 6000-seat temporary structure built in 1861.

A new brick stand, considered at the time to be the world ’ s finest cricket facility, was built in its place.

This now appears to be bearing fruit, as a considerable quantity of new housing has been built and more is under construction on the vacant lots where council properties used to stand, some of considerable size.

Many of the properties in the neighbourhood were the work of architect Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig ( 1811 – 81 ), a pupil of Schinkel who also built the original " English Embassy " in Leipziger Platz, where the vast Wertheim department store would later stand, although Friedrichvorstadt's focal point and most notable building was the work of another architect — and another pupil of Schinkel.

When creating this chapel the monks of Peterborough had thought of how they had acquired it and built into the chapel a narrow tower-just big enough for a monk to climb to the top by an internal stair and stand guard over Oswald's Arm 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

Yet even if human eyes and brains may be built in such a way that the same wavelengths stand out for everybody, still it is conceivable that for different individuals these wavelengths could evoke experiences that differ.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

During the second half of the fourth century, Saint Ambrose, as bishop of Milan, had a strong influence on the layout of the city, redesigning the centre ( although the cathedral and baptistery built at this time are now lost ) and building the great basilicas at the city gates: Sant ' Ambrogio, San Nazaro in Brolo, San Simpliciano and Sant ' Eustorgio, which still stand, refurbished over the centuries, as some of the finest and most important churches in Milan.

Buildings such as the Alte Waage ( originally built in 1534 ) now stand again in their pre-war glory.

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

A replica of the old building's cupola was built to stand in the Preakness winner's circle in the infield.

The new village of Oradour-sur-Glane, ( with a 2006 population of 2, 188 ), was built after the war, at the northwest of the site of the massacre, where ruined remnants of the former village still stand as a memorial to the dead and a representative of similar sites and events.

Two mosques were built by him, one in Nanjing and the other in Xi ' an and they still stand today.

The club built two new stands themselves and with the help of the municipality the main stand got renovated as well, including business seats and office space.

Having built his play on Becket's being a Saxon ( when he was actually a Norman whose family was from near Caen and called Becquet, Bequet, Becket in Old Norman ), Anouilh could not recast the play to accord with historical facts, so he decided to let it stand.

In 462 the Romans officially ceded Septimania to the Visigothic king Theodoric II who had held Carcassonne since 453 ; he built more fortifications at Carcassonne, which was a frontier post on the northern marches: traces of them still stand.