For the first time in thirty years, Henrietta walked down the narrow street with its shuttered shops just stirring and its inhabitants eying her with the frankest curiosity.

His tightly curled paot hung down to his narrow shoulders.

Cars, taxis, buses, and motorscooters all went plunging at once down the narrow length of it or swerving perilously around a fountain.

Absalon, with only Bishop Sweyn of Aarhus, and twelve " housecarls " thereupon disembarked, passed between a double row of Wendish warriors, 6000 strong, along the narrow path winding among the morasses, to the gates of the fortress, and, proceeding to the temple of the seven-headed god Rugievit, caused the idol to be hewn down, dragged forth and burnt.

A little further west, a narrow road closely lined with high walls, Shore Road, leads down to the West Sands and the Harbour.

We entered a small, narrow doorway, and went down two steps, but beyond those one could see nothing.

The purely selfish kinds of coercion are a form of predatory behaviour by the coercing party, whose aim is to narrow down the scope of other people ’ s actions so as to make them instrumental to its own personal interests.

A precising definition extends the descriptive dictionary definition ( lexical definition ) of a term for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.

A tambour door is an up-and-over door made of narrow horizontal slats and " rolls " up and down by sliding along vertical tracks and is typically found in entertainment centres and cabinets.

As she wrestles with the case, trying to narrow down the list of suspects and avert a major scandal, Harriet is forced to examine her ambivalent feelings about love and marriage, along with her attraction to academia as an intellectual ( and emotional ) refuge.

Still, in a half-full table, a good hash function will typically narrow the search down to only one or two entries.

For much of the night, it looked like Labor might bring down the Menzies government, but a narrow win by Liberal Billy Snedden in Bruce ended any realistic chance of opposition leader Arthur Calwell becoming Prime Minister.

However, swords could narrow down to the shinogi, then narrow further to the blade, or even expand outward towards the shinogi then shrink to the blade ( producing a trapezoidal shape ).

While it requires diligent oversight to narrow down the favorable result the breeder wants, it also makes possible the development of new varieties of koi within relatively few generations.

Whereas communication sciences focuses on the way people communicate, be it mediated or unmediated, media studies tends to narrow the communication down to just mediated communication.

The cardinality of an unclonable set of states may be as small as two, so even if we can narrow down the state of a quantum system to just two possibilities, we still cannot clone it in general ( unless the states happen to be orthogonal ).

As she walked down one of the narrow streets in the Jewish quarter, she was imperiled by two oncoming carriages.

When a neurotransmitter is released at a synapse, it reaches its highest concentration inside the narrow space of the synaptic cleft, but some of it is certain to diffuse away before being reabsorbed or broken down.

The Indians escaped down a narrow footpath to canoes that they had hidden earlier in the underbrush.

At Ford's place in Pine Woods, Northup proposed making log rafts to move lumber down the narrow Indian Creek, to get logs to market less expensively.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

* Bobsledding – a winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, purpose-built ice-covered tracks in a steerable sled.

Recent findings narrow the first domestication of wheat down to a small region of southeastern Turkey, and domesticated Einkorn wheat at Nevalı Çori — northwest of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey — has been dated to 9, 000 B. C.

Rushton and Jensen argue against expecting the Flynn Effect to narrow the US black-white IQ gap since they see that gap as mostly genetic in origin and there is evidence from mathematical analyses that what causes the Flynn effect is different from what causes the black-white gap.

: Volcanic origin, surrounded by coral reefs ; relatively flat coralline limestone plateau ( source of most freshwater ), with steep coastal cliffs and narrow coastal plains in north, low-rising hills in center, mountains in south

Vanuatu is a mountainous archipelago of volcanic origin with narrow coastal plains.

The earliest account of the origin of the Delphic oracle is provided in the Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo, which recent scholarship dates within a narrow range, ca.

There is a narrow strip in the left bank of the Ebro river lying in the southernmost part of Álava included in the La Rioja wine region, whereas the south-southwestern part of the La Rioja region is not a part of this Protected designation of origin.

The name is of Native American origin, commonly believed to signify " narrow valley ;" however native language scholars translate the name as " at the black lick " or " at the dirty lick ," referring to mineral licks frequented by deer or other animals.

A fourth hypothesis finds its origin in a liturgical mantle, which, it is asserted, was used by the early popes, and which in the course of time was folded into the shape of a band ; a fifth says its origin dates from the custom of folding the ordinary mantle-pallium, an outer garment in use in imperial times ; a sixth declares that it was introduced immediately as a papal liturgical garment, which, however, was not at first a narrow strip of cloth, but, as the name suggests, a broad, oblong, and folded cloth.

In medicine, an embolism ( plural embolisms ; from the Greek ἐμβολισμός " insertion ") is the event of lodging of an embolus ( a detached intravascular mass capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site far from its origin ) into a narrow capillary vessel of an arterial bed which causes a blockage ( vascular occlusion ) in a distant part of the body.

This is done by choosing a narrow ideal filter impulse response function, e. g., an impulse, and a weighting function which grows fast with the distance from the origin, e. g., the distance squared.

" The court had a generally conservative view of the Constitution, taking narrow interpretations of section 116 ( which guarantees religious freedom ) and section 117 ( which prevents discrimination on the basis of someone's state of origin ), interpretations that were to last well into the 1980s.

The sternocleidomastoid varies much in the extent of its origin from the clavicle: in some cases the clavicular head may be as narrow as the sternal ; in others it may be as much as in breadth.

When the clavicular origin is broad, it is occasionally subdivided into several slips, separated by narrow intervals.

Palmer and Bell are notable for observing in Great Britain ( Bell's country of origin ) and helping introduce to the United States railroads, the practices of burning coal ( rather than wood ) and the use of narrow gauge railroading.

At the origin ( x = 0 ), there is a very high, but narrow potential barrier.

It also is the origin of narrow gauge railroads and bus routes that climb into the nearby mountains on both sides of the Rhone valley in which Martigny lies.

Port Stephens has a narrow entrance between two striking hills of volcanic origin.

From this origin, the inferior belly forms a flat, narrow fasciculus, which inclines forward and slightly upward across the lower part of the neck, being bound down to the clavicle by a fibrous expansion ; it then passes behind the sternocleidomastoid, becomes tendinous and changes its direction, forming an obtuse angle.

reflects its origin as a Norse settlement, derived from the Norse word " Mjor-aker " meaning " the narrow acre ".

The rocks of the Dharwar system are mainly sedimentary in origin, and occur in narrow elongated synclines resting on the gneisses found in Bellary district, Mysore and the Aravalis of Rajputana.

" The traditional origin of the noble house of Hay is thus related :— In the reign of Kenneth III, anno 980, the Danes, who had invaded Scotland, having prevailed, at the battle of Luncarty, near Perth, were pursuing the flying Scots, from the field, when a countryman and his two sons appeared in a narrow pass, through which the vanquished were hurrying, and impeded for a moment their flight.

The hummocky terrain, small elevated plains and narrow ridges suggest that its formation is of glacial origin.

It is a narrow bundle of fibers, broadest at its origin, but varies much in its size and form.

" The myth of Kaldi the Ethiopian goatherd and his dancing goats, the coffee origin story most frequently encountered in Western literature, embellishes the credible tradition that the Sufi encounter with coffee occurred in Ethiopia, which lies just across the narrow passage of the Red Sea from Arabia's western coast.