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Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
Far away ( for ), the fields approach the limiting form of a radiating spherical wave:
The song Far Away in Australia sung by the Irish ballad group The Wolfe Tones portrays the sorrow of two young Irish lovers who are separated when the male youth is forced to make his living far away in Australia, leaving his girl behind.
" I cannot let you go "... " Far away in Australia, soon will fate be kind.
Far and away the most popular of these was the 6507, which was used in the Atari 2600 and in Atari disk drives.
Far away from the narrowest part of the beam, the spread is roughly linear with distance — the laser beam forms a cone of light in the " far field ".
Not all of the ring material would have necessarily been swept up right away ; the thickened crust of the Far Side suggests that a second moon about 1, 000-km in diameter formed in a Lagrange point of the Moon ; after tens of millions of years, as the two moons migrated outward from the Earth, solar tidal effects would have made the Lagrange orbit unstable, resulting in a slow-velocity collision that would have ' pancaked ' the smaller moon onto what is now the Far Side.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
" Far away and long ago " ( 1920 ) by Willy Pogany.
By the 14th century the castle was purchasing goods from across western Europe, with wine being imported from France, venison from parks as far away as Northamptonshire and spices from the Far East through London-based merchants.
Far and away the most successful effort was the Schoolhouse Rock series on ABC, which became a television classic ; ABC also had several other short-form animated featurettes, including Time for Timer and The Bod Squad, that had long runs.
Far away clouds or snowy mountaintops will seem yellow as well ; that effect is not obvious on clear days, but very pronounced when clouds are covering the line of sight reducing the blue hue from scattered sunlight.
Far from being delighted, Antigonus was angry with his son and struck him, calling him a barbarian and drove him away.
: Far away, I know my brothers have reached the peak ;
Far away from the power base, with few support armies and supplies, Liu led self-sufficient soldiers and broke rounds of heavy blockade, while boosting his strength back to the original 100, 000.
From 1935 to 1939 the base was the main radio interception unit for the Far East Combined Bureau, which was four miles away across the harbour in the naval dockyard.
Far away sprites are drawn before close ones.
Far from turning people away, this ascetic rule attracted thousands.
After the Japanese land invasion of the Philippines on 24 December 1941, the mission of Fifth Interceptor Command changed to provide ground defense of Luzon, with ground and air echelon personnel of unequipped Far East Air Force units on Luzon attached to fight as ground infantry units during the Battle of the Philippines ( 1941 – 42 ) after their aircraft were destroyed or evacuated to locations away from Luzon.
Far away from the aperture, the angle at which the first minimum occurs, measured from the direction of incoming light, is given by the approximate formula:
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Far and Baghdad
His family ’ s roots in business in the Far East go back to his grandfather, a descendant of Iraqi Jews originally from Baghdad, who first settled in Shanghai in 1880.

Far and current
Most of the Classic Traveller books are available in compendium volumes from Far Future Enterprises, which is the current copyright and trademark holder of all forms of the Traveller game.
* Andrews McMeel published Prince Valiant: Far from Camelot, the only collection of creators Gary Gianni and Mark Schultz's current strips, dating from November 21, 2004, to May 11, 2008.
The African American collection is a body of historically significant and current books by and about African Americans and includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as the late Emmett P. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Arthur J. Smith, who was associated with the Far East Consular Division of the State Department.
Notable current and former residents of Far Hills include:
It is extended to its current terminal, Far Rockaway – Mott Avenue on January 16, 1958.
The yeshiva was located in Far Rockaway from its inception until 2003, when it moved to its current location in Lawrence, New York.
), Robert Shaplen ( Far Eastern Correspondent, New Yorker Magazine ) and Don Luce ( former freelance journalist in Vietnam ) on U. S. withdrawal policy as it relates to possibilities of a political settlement in Vietnam ; value and supervision of South Vietnamese elections ; current situation in SE Asia as a whole and probable immediate and long range consequences of various policy alternatives.
Far removed from the original dry Ruskin House, the current building has its own bar.
The International Writing Centers Association ( IWCA ) is committed to supporting writing centers from around the world, with current regional associations in Europe and proposed associations in the Middle East, South Africa, and the Far East.
The current has an important impact on the climate of the Russian Far East, mainly in Kamchatka and Chukotka, where the northern limit of tree growth is moved south up to ten degrees compared with the latitude it can reach in inland Siberia.
Raolin Darksbane was born in Aren Mador ( current day Far Madding ).
Yurian Stonebow was born in Fel Moreina ( current day Far Madding ), circa 1300-1308 after the Breaking of the World.

Far and had
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
Each time his objective had been the same -- a direct water passage from Western Europe to the Far East.
Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter.
In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.
Their voyages were influenced by medieval European adventurers, who had journeyed overland to the Far East and contributed to geographical knowledge of parts of Asia upon their return.
An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).
In 1933, Socony-Vacuum and Jersey Standard ( which had oil production and refineries in Indonesia ) merged their interests in the Far East into a 50 – 50 joint venture.
Two years later, The Offspring had its fifth top ten album with Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and its third Modern Rock / Alternative Songs chart-topper with " You're Gonna Go Far, Kid ".
Far from being a mere " stop gap " pope, to great excitement, John called an ecumenical council fewer than ninety years after the First Vatican Council ( Vatican I's predecessor, the Council of Trent, had been held in the 16th century ).
Far is it from me to say that the visits he received were upon business, or had anything to do with the local government of the village ; but it certainly appeared so.
England had close links with India at the time when Wicca first became public in England, so this usage could well have been familiar to English speakers with a knowledge of Far Eastern religions.
An arrangement was made that the management setup of the firm was that a senior partner or proprietor was based in London who had power to appoint senior managers in the firm but had little operational control while a managing director or ' Tai-pan ' was stationed in the Far East, either in Shanghai or Hong Kong, who dealt with everyday affairs of the firm.
It was evident that appeals to the spirit of the Kellogg-Briand Pact had no impact on either the Chinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President Herbert Hoover ’ s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a means to bring peace in the Far East.
Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East ( although in his histories Herodotus proves, disbelievingly, that some Phoenicians had done so far earlier than this ).
Since World War II, Britain's presence in the Far East had gradually been run down.
Far from disarming the French clergy, many of whom were now advocating conciliarism, the clergy who had appealed Unigenitus to a general council, now appealed Pastoralis officii to a general council as well.
In this battle the Japanese fleet under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over to reach the Far East.
Of the four Portuguese Navy sloops — the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, the NRP Bartolomeu Dias, the NRP João de Lisboa and the NRP Gonçalves Zarco — which were deployed to patrol the waters off Portuguese colonies in the Far East, only one, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, had been deployed to Portuguese India.
From the perspective of others, however, the proposed airborne units had a key weakness: they required exactly the same resources as the new strategic bomber capability, another high priority, and would also compete with the badly stretched strategic air lift capability, essential to Churchill's strategy in the Far East.
In 1951 Dean Rusk, the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, branded the People's Republic of China a " Slavic Manchukuo ", implying that it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union just as Manchukuo had been a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.
Klein, " Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation ", which had originally appeared in Nyctalops magazine ; two stories by Campbell (" Before the Storm " and The Gap "), " As Far as I Can Recall " by Campbell ( autobiographical essay ); and Mike Ashley's bibliography on Campbell which was not superseded until The Core of Ramsey Campbell ( 1995 ).
The first, less aggressive strain of the disease fungus, Ophiostoma ulmi, arrived in Europe from the Far East in 1910, and was accidentally introduced to North America in 1928, but was steadily weakened by viruses and had all but disappeared in Europe by the 1940s.

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