Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Like all sugar compounds, honey will caramelize if heated too much, becoming darker in color and eventually burning.

In 1414, a sporadic new war broke out, known as the " Hunger War " from the Knights ' scorched-earth tactics of burning fields and mills ; but both the Knights and the Lithuanians were too exhausted from the previous war to risk a major battle, and the fighting petered out in the autumn.

Explosive nucleosynthesis occurs too rapidly for radioactive decay to decrease the number of neutrons, so that many abundant isotopes having equal even numbers of protons and neutrons are synthesized by the silicon quasiequilibrium set up in the explosive burning of oxygen and silicon, fusing nuclei that themselves have equal numbers of protons and neutrons to produce nuclides which consist of whole numbers of helium nuclei, up to 15 ( representing < sup > 60 </ sup > Ni ).

Ways to check carburetor mixture adjustment include: measuring the carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon, and oxygen content of the exhaust using a gas analyzer, or directly viewing the colour of the flame in the combustion chamber through a special glass-bodied spark plug sold under the name " Colortune "; the flame colour of stoichiometric burning is described as a " bunsen blue ", turning to yellow if the mixture is rich and whitish-blue if too lean.

Too low temperature will result in a mixture of sintered metal and slag, too high temperature – above boiling point of any reactant or product – will lead to rapid production of gas, dispersing the burning reaction mixture, sometimes with effects similar to a low-yield explosion.

Vader then slides too close to a lava flow and catches fire, almost burning to death.

" Jefferson airplane " is slang for a used paper match split to hold a marijuana joint that has been smoked too short to hold without burning the fingers – an improvised roach clip.

Though they arrived too late to save Danbury from burning, the elder Ludington and the New York militia helped support the Danbury troops and ensuing engagement of the British known as the Battle of Ridgefield on April 27, 1777.

Therefore, they left the water which they had brought, and they too began to throw dry wood upon the burning building.

The scarification worker needs to have detailed knowledge of the anatomy of human skin, in order to prevent tools cutting too deep, burning too hot, or burning for too long.

In his 1821 play, Almansor, the German writer Heinrich Heine — referring to the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Qur ' an, during the Spanish Inquisition — wrote, " Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.

The small remaining pockets of kauri forest in New Zealand have survived in areas that were not subjected to burning by Māori and were too inaccessible for European loggers.

Pleonasm ( from Greek, pleon: more, too much ) is the use of more words or word-parts than is necessary for clear expression: examples are black darkness, or burning fire.

Attempts to manufacture guncotton for military use failed at first because the factories were prone to explode and, above all else, the burning speed of straight guncotton was always too high.

Under this theory if toxins are too rapidly released without being safely eliminated ( such as burning fat that stores toxins ) they can damage the body and cause malaise.

Direct non-scarring moxibustion removes the burning mugwort before the skin burns enough to scar, unless the burning mugwort is left on the skin too long.

As evidence that the DC-9 had broken up at a lower altitude, the report cited eyewitnesses from Srbská Kamenice, who had seen the plane burning but still intact below the low-hanging clouds, and confirmation of a Serbian aviation expert ( who had been present at the crash site ) that the debris area had been much too small for a crash from high altitude ; it also referred to sightings of a second plane.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

Central Thessaloniki burning during the Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 | Great Fire of 1917.

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

And, Admiral Thomas J. Ryan was awarded the medal for saving a woman from the burning Grand Hotel in Yokohama, Japan, following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

Many engagements proved to be bloody but indecisive, including the Battle of Lundy's Lane near Niagara Falls, Ontario, the burning of both York ( Toronto ) and Washington, and in numerous naval engagements on the Great Lakes.

On 28 April 1653 the Great Fire of Marlborough started in a tanner's yard and spread quickly eventually after four hours burning the Guildhall, St Mary ’ s Church the County Armoury, and two hundred and forty four houses to the ground.

The other notable structure is the Ivan the Great Bell Tower on the north-east corner of the square, which is said to mark the exact centre of Moscow and resemble a burning candle.

This refers to the burning cross on his forehead, a mark of God that gives the Great Mogul his power to destroy evil spirits, such as the Bleeding Nun.

All gas equipment in Great Britain ( but not Northern Ireland ) was converted ( by the fitting of different-sized burner jets to give the correct gas / air mixture ) from burning town gas to burn natural gas ( mainly methane ) over the period from 1967 to 1977 at a cost of about £ 100 million including the writing off of redundant town gas manufacturing plants.

This skilfully and persuasively argued work interprets the Revolution through a Marxist lens: first there is the " aristocratic revolution " of the Assembly of Notables and the Paris Parlement in 1788 ; then the " bourgeois revolution " of the Third Estate ; the " popular revolution ", symbolised by the fall of the Bastille ; and the " peasant revolution ", represented by the " Great Fear " in the provinces and the burning of châteaux.

* ' Great Satan ' warned of a burning hell by Ian Black, The Guardian, February 16, 2005

Coifi mounted a stallion and rode from the king's council ( which according to local tradition was held at the royal summer encampment at Londsborough ), to the Great temple of Woden at Goodmanham where he cast a spear into the altar before burning the temple to the ground, as the people watched and thought him mad.

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.

The decree led to another great burning of Bibles in 1546 — Tyndale, Coverdale, Matthew — all but the Great Bible.

Despite his admiration for Cyrus the Great, and his attempts at renovation of his tomb, Alexander would eventually ransack Persepolis, the opulent city that Cyrus had helped build, and order its burning in 330 B. C.

He surveys the translatio stultitia: the Great Wall of China and the emperor burning all learned books, Egypt and Omar I burning the books in the Ptlomaean library.

During the Great Plague of 1665, the City authorities ordered fires to be kept burning night and day, in the hope that the air would be cleansed.

As a somewhat neutral observer on the Zexen-Grassland conflict, Geddoe and his band see several of the more provocative moments, such as the inexplicable attack by the Zexens on the Great Hollow, the assassination of the Lizard clan chief, and the burning of Karaya village by the Zexens.

Most of the victims could be counted in Cilicia, as well as the Eastern zone, and without ignoring Smyrna ( İzmir ) during what was reported as massacres and what followed with the burning of the Armenian and Greek quarters of the city ( see Great Fire of Smyrna ).

The Council realized that they had not escaped the effects of the Great White completely unscathed, and began burning any humans or animals born with deformities.

As can be seen in contemporary Nazi newsreels, part of a documentation campaign to create the image that the Holocaust in the Baltics was a local, and not Nazi-directed activity, the Arajs Kommando figured prominently in the burning of Riga's Great ( Choral ) Synagogue on 4 July 1941.

Leaves were burning somewhere and the smoke smelled, for all its ammoniac acidity, of beginnings.

Every few minutes she would awaken for a moment to review things: Stowey, yes, was on his way south, and the two boys were away in school, and nothing was burning on the stove, and Lucretia was coming for dinner and bringing three guests of hers.

Adoption and use of new and modern techniques being developed for prevention, for suppression of fires while small, and for stopping large fires while running and burning intensely.

It is apparent from the above and from experimental evidence that the cooling requirements for the anode of free burning arcs are large compared with those for the cathode.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

Argon is mostly used as an inert shielding gas in welding and other high-temperature industrial processes where ordinarily non-reactive substances become reactive ; for example, an argon atmosphere is used in graphite electric furnaces to prevent the graphite from burning.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

They were used in 18th-century chemical studies for burning materials in closed glass vessels where the products of combustion could be trapped for analysis.

Large burning lens are sometimes made as Fresnel lenses, similar to lighthouse lenses, including for use in solar furnaces.

Generally, the chemical equation for stoichiometric burning of hydrocarbon in oxygen is

Of the human body's solid components after drying and burning of organics ( as for example, after cremation ), about a third of the total " mineral " mass remaining, is the approximately one kilogram of calcium that composes the average skeleton ( the remainder being mostly phosphorus and oxygen ).

In the game's final cutscene, the camera pans over a verdant field complete with flowers and bunny rabbits, only to reveal a burning city and a bunny's head impaled on a stake: the demons have invaded Earth, paving the way for Doom II: Hell on Earth.

The eldest son or a close relative generally starts the cremation process – light the fire or press the button for the burning to begin.

In 1956 the FDA had moved for the burning of William Reich's books and research materials, which is seen as one of the worst examples of censorship in U. S. history.

The New Testament records that St. Paul had called for the burning of magic and pagan books in the city of Ephesus ; this advice was adopted on a large scale after the Christian ascent to power.

In any case, the formula claimed to have been decrypted ( 7: 5: 5 saltpeter: charcoal: sulfur ) is not useful for firearms use or even firecrackers, burning slowly and producing mostly smoke.

Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as " the whitest of the gods ", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets heaven.

AA # 9, however, will fill the case much better, and the slow burn rate of AA # 9 is ideal for magnum handgun rounds, producing 20 % higher velocities ( at maximum levels ) while still producing less pressure than the fast burning AA # 2.