How To Use Astern In A Sentence

The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
A second wave of emigrations of Ashkenazic Jews from Eastern Europe at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought larger numbers of Yiddish-speaking, traditional Orthodox Jews into the Seattle community. Weaving Women's Words: Seattle Stories
However, this happy juxtaposition of Eastern style and Western living has not always been so effortless.
Yes | No | Report from TheEasternShore ... wrote 1 year 1 week ago no, just drag them into the middle if it is iced over then just wait until the pond unfreezes I have started a new pond. I have alot of old christmass trees.
Trouble is, we've got to make up our minds whether to go full speed ahead or full speed astern. SAN ANDREAS

Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
The uplands are the northernmost part of eastern Australia to experience (infrequent) winter frosts. Einasleigh upland savanna
The lure of profit from gold and diamonds, as well as from minerals such as coltan, which is used to make mobile phones, have turned eastern Congo into a battlefield. The Guardian World News
Passion abounds in this romance set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the rough-hewn Seth Quinn wins over Drusilla, the town's icy beauty.
For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
A military operations group was formed to shield Western Europe from the communistic Eastern Europe.
Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
Myles L. Miller, Scott S. Hughes, 2009, Mixing primitive and evolved olivine tholeiite magmas in the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho Scientific Articles on Yellowstone
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
The graves of women and children have also been found in the nearby cemetery which borders the eastern walls of Qumran.
The buzzard, although not a native of the Eastern Counties, is apt to appear in both Lincolnshire and Norfolk from time to time.
Four British warplanes would also return to eastern Europe this year in an air policing role. Times, Sunday Times
Far Eastern Airways. May I help you?
The education system bears / stands no comparison with that in many Eastern European countries .
No fall from power within the Eastern bloc of nations is mentioned in any of the books.
In 1869 he was appointed vicar-forane for the eastern portion of the diocese. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
Mianyang city belongs to eastern subtropics monsoon climate region, moderate climate, and distinctive four seasons.
Two trains collided head-on in north-eastern Germany early this morning.
Saturday will be a cloudier day with outbreaks of mainly light rain in western areas, spreading slowly eastwards, though many central and eastern areas should remain dry.
Later migrations from northern and eastern Europe brought the Brythonic Celts and Nordic tribes to the area.
In fact, of all the areas of Middle Eastern studies, political science is the one where Said has probably had the least impact.
(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
A tropical storm is gaining strength in the eastern Atlantic.
On Tuesday the frontal rain in the north is likely to slide southwards, drawing down colder air for a time over northern and eastern parts. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of an old country there is a continent made up of lands that were divvied up and named by European and Middle Eastern conquerors. Walter Mosley Talks About 47
The daft governor of Massachusetts, Mitch Romney, apparently is still thinking that the wingnuts will somehow allow a northeasterner to be a serious presidential candidate so he completely wimped out (and sucked up to the wingnuts) by leaving it to his spokesman. 07/14/2005
In Russia, the ethnic and geographic diversity of the population ensured its transition would be more difficult than that in the more homogeneous and smaller Baltic states or eastern European countries.
The moist eastern slopes of the Andes tumble to dank, humid, jungle lowlands whose rivers are the highways for transportation.
From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
Sir Robert Smirke in 1807 put up work which consisted chiefly of panelling, which was affixed to the easternmost wall of the feretory. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
After 1054, the Church was divided into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
McElwee sees Los Angeles and its entertainment industry through the eyes of a bemused Easterner.
For the southeastern district, assistant, thirty-six hundred Southeastern dollars; second assistant, three thousand dollars; deputy district attorney, such compensation as shall be fixed by the district attorney, with the approval of the chief justice of the superior court. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Eastern Europe has become a testing ground for high-speed privatization.
Temperatures are expected to drop even lower this evening as a north-eastern wind blows over the UK.
The Upper Series consists of a main passage about 200 metres long, divided into two by a right-angled bend where it connects with The Bye Pass Crawl from the Far Eastern Bedding Plane.
In all but parts of eastern Slovakia, the stress is on the first syllable of a word; longer words (three or more syllables) have secondary accents.
During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
Other highlights include documenting great white pines, American sycamores, tulip trees, eastern cottonwoods, eastern hemlock, and other species.
The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
A throwback to the Polynesian craze that swept North America in the '50s and '60s, the restaurant is full of Eastern Island statuettes, wooden tikis and a Hawaiian ukulele soundtrack.
People who live in areas of the southeastern United States where kudzu has overgrown everything have little good to say about this Japanese import.
The island's best beaches lie along the norther and eastern coasts with plenty of sand to choose from.
The northerly breeze may bring one or two light showers to northern and eastern coastal counties. Times, Sunday Times
It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed
The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
Last month we launched three substations in the Eastern Cape and before the end of June we will be launching the Benedict substation in Nkandla. Speech by Ms Buyelwa Sonjica, MP, Minister of Minerals and Energy, introducing the debate on the Minerals and Energy Budget Vote
There was more heavy snow across northern and eastern areas on the Monday. Times, Sunday Times
The education system bears / stands no comparison with that in many Eastern European countries .
Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc. was formed to acquire and manage caves for scientific study, education of those persons interested in speleology, and conservation of these resources.
A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
I wish I had seen an eastern towhee or a cedar waxwing. GBBC* 2009 « Fairegarden
Tremendous changes have transpired during the last decade in Central and Eastern Europe, both in the economy and in the westernization of everyday life.
This practice is still part of Middle Eastern cultures today, particularly for special occasions such as weddings, when along with the bride, her mother, aunts, and friends will henna themselves as well.
The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Eskendereya also is defined as a flirty Alexandrian dance with a heavy veil, according to a bellydance glossary of Middle Eastern dance teminologies. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Typically seen in Middle Eastern dishes, saffron is also the star ingredient in dishes like paella, bouillabaisse, and risotto Milanese.
There was some sort of anomalous weather pattern that went through eastern Pennsylvania.
By far, the most frequent chronometric age determinations link southeastern cave art with the Mississippian period.
Hannity is a illiterate, non-educated Northeastern bohunk with a big yap and no brains. Think Progress » Hannity: Snow Storms ‘Seem To Contradict Al Gore’s Hysterical Global Warming Theories’
The end result recalls the heady absurdism of Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) spiked with Eastern antagonisms. Not for the Faint of Heart
Mother Dairy has already launched a dairy whitener in the north-eastern market, while its butter business was kicked off last year.
the steamer went astern at half speed
Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
The Eastern expansion of NATO is another disputed issue between Europe and the United States.
Adnan Abidi/Reuters Ziona, a man from the north-eastern Indian state of Mizoram, has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. Bizarre India, 2011
He described it in the 1930s as the richest bird habitat in peninsular India, comparable only with the Eastern Himalayas.
The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been. The Silent Superstar
One could not mistake his warm empathy for the place, for his splendid vision of a small world of learning and research embracing both sides of that famous backwoods river, the Otonabee, deep in the heart of eastern Ontario.
Four more people drowned in eastern India on Wednesday and an overflowing river threatened to inundate low-lying areas around Patna, the populous capital city of Bihar state, relief officials said yesterday.
Tocai Friulano is a grape native to the Friuli region in north eastern Hudson Valley Wine
Eastern senators extolled the peace while Senor Villa descended on the tents & adobes of the 13th Cavalry, Columbus, New Mexico
European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium.
The south-eastern port towns show the most frequent signs of French influence.
The works of some English artists show an eastern influence.
Clough translated it in 1834, and Hardy has given an interesting summary of it in his Eastern Monarchism; but neither the text nor any complete translation is readily accessible, and I have therefore thought that this edition might possibly be acceptable to those who desire information respecting the practice of Buddhism in Ceylon, where, as is well pointed out by Mr. Childers, in his Pli Dictionary, (s.v. Nibbnam, p. 272, note), Buddhism retains almost its pristine purity. The Admission and Ordination Ceremonies. III. The Order. Reprinted from a paper by J.F. Dickson, B. A., in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1874.
The forests include such conifers as red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, red pine, jack pine, eastern white pine, tamarack, eastern white cedar, and eastern hemlock.
And in some parts of Eastern Europe frappés are made with cola in place of coffee.
In the shtetls of Eastern Europe, Jewish women had served their families by conducting business in the marketplace so that their men were free to spend time in study and prayer.
The eastern plains, or llanos, account for 60 percent of the country's territory and are sparsely populated, as are the coastal lowlands.
I grew up around the Gangetic planes of eastern India, in a small town called Chandan Nagar about 25 miles from Calcutta. Musings in Monsoon Logic
When their terms of indenture were over, some moved to Johannesburg and Cape Town, but most remained in the eastern region.
The 100-ft. high, seven-storied gopuram on the eastern entrance to the temple is a premier landmark of the capital city.
Much Middle Eastern art in the Biennale revealed a combination of older styles of modernism (early abstraction, Cubism).
The latest jolt from the defending Eastern Conference champions came Wednesday night in a 5-3 victory. USATODAY.com
The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.
This toponymy, dating from medieval times, reappeared spontaneously in southern and eastern Ukrainian towns and cities, such as Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Simferopol that were built in the eighteenth century.
The aborigines of the country, driven like the Bhils and other autochthonic Indians, into the eastern and south-eastern wilds bordering upon the ocean. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
They call this season bordwo bo'uai ('blowing the petticoats awry'), in reference to the effect of the first strong gales of the south-eastern breeze.
The Eastern Columbia Building 1930 was designed by Claud Beelman, became the headquarters of the Eastern & Columbia Outfitting companies, and is absolutely stunning. Tamie Adaya: Los Angeles: Art Deco Mecca
SPOKANE -- A lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Spokane to prevent garbage from being shipped from Hawaii to a landfill in the Eastern Washington town of Roosevelt. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
The Mississippi gopher frog (Rana capita sevosa) was once found in suitable habitat within the Lower Coastal Plain from Florida to eastern Louisiana.
The end of the War of 1812 with Britain inaugurated decades of peaceful economic growth, with new roads and canals opening the eastern seaboard to easier and speedier travel.
Toward the eastern coast there is an interior belt of green, hilly country that contains the Cape and Natal midlands.
It dismisses an entire culture in the eastern part of our nation as troublemakers and traitors.
These planation surfaces joined once each other imply that the vast southeastern part of China was in a state of peneplain during late geological period.
Japanese companies, especially those in the auto sector, are long-term investors in Thailand and are some of the key tenants at Hemaraj's and Amata's industrial estates on the country's eastern seaboard. Real Estate
Suicide bombers a deadly attack a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
Exposures of the UGl chromitite layer are well known from Dwars River in the eastern Bushveld.
The eastern slopes of Erebus were violet at first, and then they were bathe in rosy pink alpenglow and, between two and three o'clock, when the sun rose above WindVane Hill, they became sunflower yellow. Terra Incognita
As the sun beats down on Africa, a woman in a veld in the Eastern Cape of South Africa is hunched over her task - uprooting a species of flowering plant.
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By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States. Overkill
In eastern Mongolia late Permian marine sediments with brachiopods, crinoids and Bryozoa and Triassic marine sediments with ammonites occur in the suture zone, indicating that marine conditions existed during these times.
In plan-form the dune has an irregular outline but the eastern margin is more complex and irregular than the western edge.
A generation has grown up in the meantime and most of the eastern bloc has joined the EU. Times, Sunday Times
Indiana are the clear favorites to bring a championship back to the Eastern conference.
Most of the shipwrecks in the roadstead here are due to these south-eastern squalls.
As if to symbolize this state of things, the "fancy piece" astern comprised, among numerous other carved decorations, a cross and a miter; while forward, on the bows, was a sort of devil for a figure-head -- a dragon-shaped creature, with a fiery red mouth, and a switchy-looking tail. Redburn. His First Voyage
Ahead, a line of massive, two-tailed scorpions scuttled through the eastern gate and swarmed among fallen hunks of ceiling. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction.
Allied to the perches is the pike-perch, of which two species are of some importance to the angler, one the wall-eye of eastern Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
A north-eastern wind from Germany will send temperatures plummeting as low as -5C.
Other names for some of them include sarvisberry, shadbush or shadbloom (because blooming when the shad are running in eastern rivers), juneberry, and saskatoon.
It is, however, the point where the valley comes apart, dividing into a western and an eastern branch.
In ten minutes after the first concussion, and while the engines were still turning astern, the ship, as stated, struck again under the engine room, bilging the side several feet, and tearing open the bottom.
Then gradually it assumed a specific regional identity in the West, developing a strong imaginative appeal to both easterners and westerners.
Early Zionist leaders, from the late nineteenth century onwards, consciously set out to create a class of Jews who were the opposite of the Jews of the shtetl (the traditional Eastern European Jewish ghetto).
Many Eastern and Southern Indian nations were uprooted and forced to remove themselves beyond the Mississippi River.
Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok. Delivery Firms Help in Myanmar and China
Note 15: One important collaborative effort in the eastern Transvaal is discussed in van der Merwe and Scully, "The Phalaborwa Story. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Carn Mor Dearg lies on the eastern arm of the horseshoe ridge that includes Ben Nevis and is a favourite with scramblers who climb ‘The Ben’.
Caisii Mao/ Demotix Boys played football in a waterlogged field after heavy monsoon rain hit Dimapur, in the northeastern state of Nagaland, June 27. Early Monsoon Showers
Others thought the IOC president was ending an era of massive hypocrisy, known as "shamateurism," in which state-sponsored professional athletes from Eastern bloc countries had passed as amateurs for decades. Olympics leader Juan Antonio Samaranch dies at 89
A vegetation study was conducted within central Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley Province at the Mohn Mill natural area, an area that harbors the federally endangered northeastern bulrush, Scirpus ancistrochaetus.
Any presidential candidate has had to woo support from the northern and eastern industrial cities.
Borscht, an old world beet soup long savored by Russian and Eastern European Jewish immigrants, lent its name to the Catskill region of upstate New York where generations of revelers summered at hotels such as the Concord and Grossinger's. A Family Named Gold Tries to Add Cool to a Soup That's the Color Purple
She had the fluting vowels of one of the eastern suburbs ' private schools. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Northerly weather can bring cold conditions with snow and sleet in the winter, and cool, showery rain in the summer, particularly along the Eastern edge of Britain.
Its most impressive feature, a large round tower or donjon, commands an eastern view of the Dee estuary.
I have gone through the central provinces, Chontales, Matagalpa, and Segovia; from the San Juan river, the south-eastern boundary of Nicaragua, away to the confines of Honduras on the north-west. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
the northeastern trend of the coast
This marsupial family is restricted to wooded areas of eastern Australia and contains a single living species, the familiar koala.
The eastern end of Loch Arkaig, in complete contrast to its middle and upper reaches, is beautifully wooded.
Nor will they benefit by being ruled by oligarchs from the western Ukraine rather than from the eastern Ukraine.
In a gap between eastern peaks a colorless luminosity of the sky heralded moonrise. THE DISPOSSESSED
İşsever lives in the southeastern city of Gaziantep. Turkish Housewife Opens Her Own Museum
It sits amid wide lawns and giant cedar trees high above the eastern banks of the wide and winding River Dart.
The topmost peak of the Civita also peers out above the fir-woods bordering the eastern face of Monte Crot; and far away, beyond the sunny vista of the Val Fiorentino, the faint blue peak of the Marmolata is seen against the horizon, its snow-slope outlined in frosted silver. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa.
Her major land holding, Missenden in Buckinghamshire, was far from the cluster, although it anchored another much thinner cluster in eastern Buckinghamshire and western Hertfordshire. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Their music is a mixture of Eastern European folk, gypsy, techno and American jazz.
The Eastern mace is well known to English collectors, it is always of metal, and mostly of steel, with a short handle like our facetiously called life-preterver The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Members of the Taoist Tai Chi society accompanied James and gave a demonstration of the benefits the eastern low-impact exercise can have for older people.
It looks like another good year for lobster harvesters on the Eastern Shore.
At a later phase, the British Empire decided, with the approval of the League of Nations, to postpone or freeze (but not to annul!) the mandate decision (that is, the trusteeship) in eastern Palestine (current-day Jordan) and work to implement the decision in western Palestine only – that is, to settle Jews there urgently and densely. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In many Eastern countries massage was and is a part of everyday life.
Poland blazed the trail of democratic reform in eastern Europe.
He looked and had the feel of a well-born Eastern moderate Republican. Someone Had a Good Week
What struck me as odd was that they had their apertures sealed with a hard calcareous epiphragm as opposed to a membranous one observed in eastern U.S. snails that normally don't experience long dry periods. Archive 2006-06-01
Finally, I hear a thick Middle Eastern accent asking me what I'd like.
The allochthonous units that overlie the eastern part of this terrane were probably emplaced when the Magnitogorsk volcanic arc collided with this margin in late Devonian times.
Perhaps OUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION will inspire Easterners to fight harder when Westerners seek to use their Senatorial advantages to gain undeserved highway and anti-terrorist funds. Balkinization
The nature of the dictatorships determined the savage character of the eastern conflict.
The recent discovery of several exceptionally well preserved juvenile and subadult Triceratops skulls and numerous juvenile, subadult, and adult cranial elements, from the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, confirms the ontogeny and morphology of epi-ossifications: epinasal, epijugal, epiparietal, and episquamosal. Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications
This ancient Middle Eastern source furnished the basis for classical Greek medical and philosophical theories of hysteria.
He was always genial, with the parochialism and humour of his north-eastern background.
Cruttenden cites evidence that the Irish population there was almost inexistant before 1830 and that the Scots there were mainly from the Eastern lowland regions where the pattern is not observed, whereas there is documentary evidence that the Language Log
In other words the Greek seems to encompass a profound complexity of meaning as regards the placement (if that is the right word) of the head cloth, napkin, or, in fact, the σουδαριον/sudarium (in essence the same word, evidently a technical term in the repertoire of near eastern undertakers in Roman-occupied Palestine). Archive 2009-04-01
There's some great value in what was once the Eastern bloc. Times, Sunday Times
It has the single dome on four piers and three eastern apses.
In a new study, scientists looked at the retinas of 17 shark species caught off the coasts of eastern and western Australia, including tiger sharks and bull sharks.
More than 1,000 companies are already in the e-bike business in China, with many of them clustered in the eastern coastal provinces such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which both border Shanghai. Grist - the Latest from Grist
The Mimosa tree pictured and described here, or what they call mimosa in the southeastern US is not the same mimosa that people are familiar with in Europe and the Middle East. A Bouquet of Mimosa Blossoms
The brocade incorporates Chinese symbols such as the dragon, fusing Islamic motifs like vine and floral patterns with a distinctly Far-Eastern style.
VENUS AND THE MOON: Early Thursday morning just before dawn when the Perseid meteor shower is supposed to be most intense, Venus and the crescent moon will appear side-by-side in the eastern sky. Torrent those XP Service Pack 2 bits
Finally, he injured a pastern training, and it was decided to send him home.
The process was shaped by military competition between the Eastern and Western ruling classes.
The high incidence of white-collar crime poses a serious threat to entrepreneurship and the future of legitimate business activities in Eastern Europe.
It was quite the custom, after dinner, for many of the better classes of society, especially when entertaining curious Easterners, to spend an hour or several in motoring from dance-hall to dance-hall and cheap cabaret to cheap cabaret. CHAPTER XVIII
No other people in the state had offered to do what the south-eastern residents were doing.
Into this gloomy atmosphere came a national drive by preservationists and conservationists to create national parks and forests in the eastern United States.
The spontaneous appearance of a forest of oaks on the eastern shores of Asia was just as probable, under favoring conditions -- though occurring subsequently to the time of their appearance on this continent -- as that of the miniature forests of "samphire," or small saline plants, which spontaneously made their appearance about the salt-works of Syracuse, when conditions actually favored. Life: Its True Genesis
The village is sheltered by stunning mountains, and lies on the eastern side of a headland away from westerly gales. Times, Sunday Times
The Jamestown Foundation Jamestown is a unique organization founded in the early eighties to assist asylees and defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.
Most of the early immigrants of the late nineteenth century worked in the steel mills and foundries of the northeastern states.
Summer calving in southern and southeastern herds is questionable because of the potential for reduced calf performance.
So far, the central courtyard – featuring in the middle a round monument or tholos – the western row of shops, the southern portico and the southern half of the eastern row of shops have been excavated. The Macellum: Aims 2009 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
In the U.S., the most widely grown oyster is the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), which is farmed down the East Coast and Chesapeake Bay. Oysters Come Back in Vogue
AD 395 years, Christianity as the State religion of the Roman Empire split into Eastern and Western Empire.
Eastern Division detectives yesterday intensified the hunt for a woman in her mid-20s, who is believed to be part of an extortion ring.
His findings mirror those of other studies elsewhere on the eastern coast.
Some structural, petrological and isotopic evidence suggests multi-stage and possibly polycyclic metamorphic evolution of the granulites of the Eastern Ghats belt.
The Northland ophiolite crops out at headlands to the east and west of Cooper's Beach on the eastern Northland Peninsula.
Fire swept through a multi-storey nursing home in eastern India on Friday morning, killing at least 35 people and trapping many more elderly residents in the smoke-filled building, an official said. Fire kills 20 at Indian nursing home
Other critics said western governments should not be involved in Middle Eastern regime change. Times, Sunday Times
Western gardeners can still have evergreen hollies, but the evergreen choices in eastern gardens are limited to spruces and Leucothes, or boxwood and Acuba in warm-region gardens.
The new album incorporates vocal laments from Eastern Europe and a dirge-like hymn from a Croatian church congregation.
State Director for IUE, I continued my involvement in the Civil Rights movement, in the political movement, and they were involved with migrants and that is when I first became involved with what we call the eastern stream of migrants, but not very heavily involved. Oral History Interview with Jim Pierce, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0012-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Such sites might include low farm land and wet meadows along major waterways, including many infested sites along creeks and canals in northeastern Nebraska.
The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU). Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
As we are currently holding second place in the Eastern Centre Championship, we are hoping to have a good run at this one to see if we can overtake the current holder of this title.
The eastern windows are obscured by a vast Baroque altarpiece.

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