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 ).

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

the onion was then fastened together with string and placed beneath a dripping eave.

Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

He described the string construction of the ellipse and he wrote a book on conic sections, which was excellent preparation for designing the elaborate vaulting of Hagia Sophia.

This guitar was made famous by Artists such as Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and Leo Kottke are famous 12 string players.

His second war with Russia, which began in 1826, ended in a string of costly defeats after which Persia was forced to cede nearly all of its Armenian territories and Nakhchivan.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

The opening theme, played pianissimo over string tremolos, so much resembles the sound of an orchestra tuning, many commentators have suggested that was Beethoven's inspiration.

This 3rd piano trio was later reworked by Beethoven into the C minor string quintet, Op.

Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.

" This " split pickup ", introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups ( Fender was marketing a four string solid body electric mandolin at the time ).

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

A supplementary thought experiment with the same objective of determining the occurrence of absolute rotation also was proposed by Newton: the example of observing two identical spheres in rotation about their center of gravity and tied together by a string.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

His next important breakthrough was in the Opus 33 string quartets ( 1781 ), where the melodic and the harmonic roles segue among the instruments: it is often momentarily unclear what is melody and what is harmony.

An attempt to address this question, called string gas cosmology, was proposed by Robert Brandenberger and Cumrun Vafa.

Herbert chose in the books that followed to undermine Paul ’ s triumph with a string of failures and philosophical paradoxes ; Dune was a heroic melody, and Dune Messiah was its inversion.

In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).

The earliest designs featured a slot in the stock, down into which the string was placed.

On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

Sometimes the rank of the soldier was added to the reverse, and most members of the medical corps had a tiny cross stamped near the string holes, regardless of their religion.