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There was a peculiar density about it, a thick substance that could be sensed but never identified, never actually perceived.
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There and was
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle wouldn't stop to graze.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
There and peculiar
There still remains to be mentioned Mommsen's peculiar view that Marcellus was not really a bishop, but a simple Roman presbyter to whom was committed the ecclesiastical administration during the latter part of the period of vacancy of the papal chair.
There is evidence that Cosworth was working on a push-rod V8 along the lines of the Ilmor / Mercedes 500I to exploit the peculiar loophole in the Indianapolis 500 rules permitting such engines higher turbocharger boost-this was assigned a project code ( CD ) but seemingly never completed.
" There were a few things that were peculiar about this animal-feed production plant ," Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM's deputy executive chairman, later told reporters, " beginning with the extensive air defenses surrounding it.
There are of course customs peculiar to particular countries or communities within the Sephardic world, such as Syria and Morocco.
In a March 1882 interview with the Arizona Daily Star, Virgil Earp told the reporter, " There was something very peculiar about Doc.
There are intrinsic logistical difficulties in trying to count the number of religious people anywhere, as well as difficulties peculiar to China.
There are two principal and peculiar gifts in the nature of man, knowledge and reason ; the one commandeth, and the other obeyeth: these things neither the whirling wheel of fortune can change, neither the deceitful cavillings of worldlings separate, neither sickness abate, neither age abolish ".
There were extensive gardens and a lot of money was spent on them: The house itself consists of sixty rooms, and the sum of, we understand £ 20, 000 in round numbers, has been expended so far upon the building ,-Upon entering the grand hall, through the massive oaken doorway, replete with medieval decorations, the visitor finds that ‘ The Priory ’ has been erected in a style of magnificence not very generally met with – it is floored en mosaique, in walnut and oak ; the peculiar grotesque spirit of the Gothic style is not permitted to run riot through the rich oak carving, while that more beautiful element, tracery enters largely into the interior ornamentation – the oak painted ceiling richly stuccoed and the polished armour shields an banners that hang around with the erect figures in full suits of armour ; the wide staircase in massive oak – the great doorways leading to the drawing – room at one side and to the library at the other – the rich and mellow light that comes through the beautiful stained glass window that forms the upper portion of the Gothic entrance, and through the lancet shaped sashes – all this bespeak a profuse liberality and taste of order.
There are also several small closed classes, such as pronouns, prepositions, articles, demonstratives, numerals, conjunctions, and a few grammatically peculiar words such as eis (" here is "; cf.
There is a considerable peculiar velocity toward us through the Virgo cluster of about 700 km / s while the cluster's recession velocity is about 1100 km / s, this ultimately pegs its recessional velocity to only about 400 km / s.
There are also factors having to do with players being accustomed to peculiar environmental conditions of their home area.
There are also classes of chemically peculiar cool stars ( that is, stars with spectral type G or later ), but these stars are typically not main sequence stars.
There is also a peculiarity in the pillars of the Hermopolitan portico peculiar to themselves, or, at least, discovered only again in the temple of Gournou.
There and density
There remains a residue of total costs, or total `` revenue requirements '' which, since it is found to behave as if it were constant over substantial variations in traffic density, is strictly unallocable on a cost-finding basis.
There were 49, 454 housing units at an average density of 2, 794. 6 per square mile ( 1, 079. 0 / km² ), of which 18, 846 ( 40. 9 %) were owner-occupied, and 27, 183 ( 59. 1 %) were occupied by renters.
There is strong observational evidence for dark energy, as the total energy density of the universe is known through constraints on the flatness of the universe, but the amount of clustering matter is tightly measured, and is much less than this.
There were 47, 291 housing units at an average density of 7, 354. 7 per square mile ( 2, 840. 3 / km² ).
There were 6, 732 housing units at an average density of 1, 021. 5 per square mile ( 394. 4 / km² ).
There were 47, 755 housing units at an average density of 1, 026. 0 per square mile ( 396. 2 / km² ).
There were 2, 989 housing units at an average density of 60. 9 per square mile ( 23. 5 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >).
There were 1, 891 housing units at an average density of 415. 2 per square mile ( 160. 5 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >).
There were 54, 181 housing units at an average density of 1, 505. 0 per square mile ( 581. 3 / km < sup > 2 </ sup >).
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