For, unlike the Sioux and the Crows, the Aricaras are not great horsemen, nor are they aggressive like the savage Blackfeet.

After another long pause he asked, `` How many people know who they are ''??

Whatever they are talking about??

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

And both in their objectives of non-discrimination and of social progress they have had ranged against them the Southerners who are called Bourbons.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

Whatever their faults, they are not hypocrites.

and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.

to some degree they are being supplanted by a concept of national responsibility.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

What these fragments are and how they activate the go order may not be revealed.

Now let us imagine a wing of B-52's, on alert near their `` positive control ( or fail-safe ) points '', the spots on the map, many miles from Soviet territory, beyond which they are forbidden to fly without specific orders to proceed to their targets.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

they are the places where Persians live.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

When a second quake came, they dashed back to the beach, fearing that they might be buried under landslides.

Though confident they could secure the stadium, their hopes were dashed when Sheldon Silver and Joseph L. Bruno, both of whom held veto power over the stadium construction, refused to support the project, alleging it would hurt rather than help the development of the West Side.

However, the Tigers ' first match of the season ( against Geelong ), quickly dashed that hope, as they were thrashed by 62 points.

The Commission originally thought they could win, but when Joseph Bonanno returned, their hopes were dashed.

The dashed line between Amborella and Nuphar is meant to indicate some uncertainty about the relationship between the Amborellaceae and the Nymphaeaceae, and whether or not they form a clade that is sister to the angiosperms, rather than Amborella alone being a monophyletic group sister to the angiosperms.

At the last minute, William dashed back to rescue his illegitimate half-sister, the Countess of Perche ; when they and several others threw themselves into the small dinghy, it, " overcharged by the multitude that leapt into her, capsized and sank and buried all indiscriminately in the deep.

The result of the general election, the return of a constituent assembly predominantly moderate if not monarchical, dashed the hopes of those who had looked for the establishment, by a peaceful revolution, of their ideal socialist state ; but they were not prepared to yield without a struggle, and in Paris itself they commanded a formidable force.

in four ( n − 1 ) new lines ( the dashed lines in the diagram ) being added, numbered 1 through 4, one for each point that they connect

The chances for rekindled romance are then dashed when Nicole reveals she has become engaged since they broke up.

Arthur and Eileen ’ s false optimism for the future is dashed when they see a newspaper headline indicating he is wanted for murder.

That glimmer of hope is dashed when an improvised gas grenade they plan to use on their enemy totally fails on testing, thereby erasing their one possible advantage.

Aviation checklists generally consist of a system and an action divided by a dashed line, and lack a checkbox as they are often read aloud and are usually intended to be reused.

It is said also that Ferdinand hesitated, but was prevented from accepting the offer by Torquemada, the grand inquisitor, who dashed into the royal presence and, throwing a crucifix down before the king and queen, asked whether, like Judas, they would betray their Lord for money.

In 2004, they finished 3rd and qualified for the play-offs but Kashiwa Reysol dashed their promotion hope by beating them home and away ( the scoreline was both 2-0 ).

Some of us got close to the wire and we started to cut it with a pliers, you might as well try and snip Cloyne round tower with a scissors .” He then grabbed hold of the stakes holding the barbed wire, " I dashed at the first one, heaved and strained and it came into my arms … I believe there was wild cheering when they saw what I was at, but I only heard the screech of bullets and saw dirt rising all round from where they hit.

“ Stewart, perceiving the annoyance which these two guns were causing, and the injury that they might still cause, called upon his company ( No. 2 ), and at the head of it, increased in weight and numbers by a few men of the other companies, and of the 53rd, who had joined our men, dashed forward in the most gallant style, captured the guns at the point of the bayonet, turned the guns on the flying rebels, and then, pushing forward at the double, while Captain Cornwall, with his company ( No. 3 ) and the men of other companies, followed in support, assaulted the large pile of building called the barracks, situated in the left front of the Sikanderbagh, drove the enemy out, and established themselves in it ”.

The chairman was about to introduce as the first speaker when an officer and a few soldiers tried to climb to the platform, demanding that the soldier that held the red flag give it up ..., without warning, a squad of mounted police dashed into the audience, driving their horses over the assembled workers and clubbing them as they went.

Master received a reprimand from the directors for his interference, but although they agreed to free Bengal from oversight by the Madras presidency, Charnock's hopes of promotion to the top Bengal post at Hooghly were dashed when in 1681 the directors sent out one of their own, William Hedges, as agent of the bay and governor of Bengal.

Thus, they picked 800 cavalry with them and dashed out, successfully lowered the enemy's morale by killing two of Sun Quan's generals on the field.

Often the double-yellow line has sections where one of the lines becomes dashed ( in which case it is no longer a " double-yellow ") indicating to the drivers traveling on the side closest to the dashed line that they may pass when it's safe.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

Although they drew light ground fire they saw no signs of activity.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

It was snowing hard when they got there and they saw no horses outside.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.

My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

By no means would we discourage the production of ideas: they provide raw materials with which to work ; ;

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

But when he showed his new figurative pictures to his artist friends of the abstract camp, they paid him no compliments and drew long faces.

As they looked with nostalgia to a society which had been swept away, they were probably no more than half-conscious that they painted in colors which had never existed.