The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

This unusual collagen also was shown to undergo a reversible thermal phase transformation.

In order for the appeal to succeed, the appellant must prove that the lower court committed reversible error, that is, an impermissible action by the court acted to cause a result that was unjust, and which would not have resulted had the court acted properly.

All restoration was made using titanium dowels and is designed to be completely reversible, in case future experts decide to change things.

One of the guiding principles of conservation has traditionally been the idea of reversibility, that is that all interventions with the object should be fully reversible, and the object should be able to be returned to the state in which it was prior to the conservators intervention.

The concept of chemical equilibrium was developed after Berthollet ( 1803 ) found that some chemical reactions are reversible.

The electrochemical reaction that produced current was ( to a useful degree ) reversible, allowing electrical energy and chemical energy to be interchanged as needed.

Hemoglobin's reversible oxygenation was described a few years later by Felix Hoppe-Seyler.

In 2001, to celebrate 100 years as " Manchester United ", a reversible white / gold away kit was released, although the actual match day shirts were not reversible.

Moclobemide, was the first reversible inhibitor of MAO-A to enter widespread clinical practice ; its reversible inhibitory features give it a number of advantages over the older irreversible MAO inhibitors.

One set of ploughs was right-handed, and the other left-handed, allowing continuous ploughing along the field, as with the turnwrest and reversible ploughs.

The term cryostasis was introduced to name the reversible preservation technology for live biological objects which is based on using clathrate-forming gaseous substances under increased hydrostatic pressure and hypothermic temperatures.

That increase has provoked ethical concerns about the interpretation of " irreversible " since " patients may still be alive five or even 10 minutes after cardiac arrest because, theoretically, their hearts could be restarted, thus are clearly not dead because their condition was reversible.

Some recent research claims that topically applied corticosteroids did not significantly increase the risk of skin thinning, stretch marks or HPA axis suppression ( and where such suppression did occur, it was mild and reversible where the corticosteroids were used for limited periods of time ).

Count direction was not reversible.

French mathematician Gaspard de Prony first proposed a reversible pendulum in 1800, but his work was not published till 1889.

These trains would run through a reversible platform at Gatwick where a portion would detach and wait in the platform for passengers until the next up train from Bognor Regis was attached and the train would depart for Victoria.

He also was first to propose using a reversible pendulum to measure gravity, which was independently invented in 1817 by Henry Kater and became known as the Kater's pendulum.

Historically, the term Tesla principle was used to describe ( amongst other things ) certain reversible processes invented by Nikola Tesla.

A compact disc player, available only with the Delco Bose Gold Series music system, was a new option this year, as was reversible floor mats, and gold-plated ornamentation (" Cadillac " grille and trunk scripts, sail panel ornaments, deck lid engine plaque, trunk lock cover, tail lamp emblems, and available wire wheel cover wreath and crest ).

Previously, reversible cholinergic agents such as physostigmine were used but this was found to increase the risk of cardiac toxicity ( no reference ; unable to verify in PubMed literature search 12 / 31 / 11 ).

Murray was one of the expedition, a San Francisco based marine technology company established in 1992, that is developing a vehicle, Deepsearch ( and Ocean Explorer HOV Unlimited ), with some support from Google's Eric Schmidt with which a crew of two or three will take 90 minutes to reach the seabed, as the program Deep Search.

The first freeway HOV lane in the United States was implemented in the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway in Northern Virginia, between Washington DC and the Capital Beltway, and was opened in 1969 as a bus-only lane.

The busway was opened in December 1973 to carpools with four or more occupants, becoming the first instance in which buses and carpools officially shared a HOV lane over a considerable distance.

The second freeway HOV facility was the contraflow bus lane on the Lincoln Tunnel Approach and Helix in Hudson County, New Jersey in 1970.

The first permanent HOV facility in California was the bypass lane at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge toll plaza, opened to the public in April 1970.

The HOV was opened to 3 + carpools in 1976 and currently continues to be one of the most efficient HOV facilities in North America.

However, it took until 1985 before any HOV project was constructed in Los Angeles County, and by 1993 there were only of HOV lanes countywide.

The jump was filmed on the fifth-level HOV lane ramp of the massive stack interchange.

However, in July 2006, the hybrid / HOV privilege was revoked.

The highway was recently widened to permit an additional HOV lane in either direction between Guelph Line and Trafalgar Road.

A third lane was built to serve HOV traffic in 1992.

In the late 1980s, the lane was redesignated as a HOV lane for carpools of 3 or more, in addition to transit use.

The southern part of I-575 was slated to be widened to a total of six through lanes in the next few years, as part of the Northwest Corridor HOV / BRT plan from the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority ( GRTA ).

The extra lane in each direction would extend up to Sixes Road, and was planned to be an HOV / HOT lane, with special exits at smaller roads that currently do not have any direct access.

Highway 404 is one of several freeways in the Greater Toronto Area ( GTA ) with High-Occupancy Vehicle ( HOV ) lanes ; the southbound lane was one of the initial projects in the province and opened on December 13, 2005.

The proposal to eventually convert the inner lanes into HOV lanes was announced at the same time.

On December 13, 2005, the southbound HOV lane was opened to traffic.

When the bridge was built, parallel to the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, two reversible high-occupancy vehicle ( HOV ) lanes were set up to accommodate the traffic flow between Seattle and the suburban Eastside ( westbound in the morning, eastbound in the evenings ).

The facility was initially constructed with a single lane as the first busway in the United States before being expanded and converted to HOV use.

When I-64 was augmented in the 1990s with reversible HOV lanes, I-264 towards Virginia Beach ( then SR 44 ) was designated as the eastern terminus of the reversible lanes and one of the few direct exits from / entrances to the HOV lanes.