How To Use Fas In A Sentence

My aunt is very old-fashioned.
The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT

There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science.
A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating, people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Last time I took my pulse, it was a bit fast.
In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.
The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
Antifascist groups have had their objections rejected because they live outside the area. Times, Sunday Times
The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
If you had to make one for a particular fashion house, what would it be like? Times, Sunday Times
She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women's magazine.
And the prints represent Abstract Expressionism's entire stylistic range, from fast and visceral to cool and ethereal.
This type of political perversion of the law was well known during Hitler's fascist dictatorship.
A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
We now read that men are to be targeted with a range of pink summer wearables by the high-street fashion chains 'cashing in' on the growing phenomenon of ' metrosexuality.
In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ... Homer and His Age
He shaved, got dressed and took the elevator to the breakfast-room.
Unless you've been hiding under an unfashionable rock for the past year, you'll have the word camel firmly rooted in your fashionista lexicon. Philippa Young: Camel: It Doesn't Matter if You're Black or White
Will they require huge hard drives and superfast broadband? Times, Sunday Times
Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
It's every girl's dream, and last weekend, restaurateur and fashion aficionada Elizabeth An and couture curator Christos Garkinos of Tina Daunt: A Magical Fusion of Food and Fashion
I haf to light de fire, put on de kiddle, scrap some vit my vife, and get myself breakfast. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
It was an old-fashioned mill for grinding linseed, expressing the oil, and making oil-cake.
In life, patience is the key. It's much better to be going somewhere slowly than nowhere fast.
The lid won't come off accidentally , it's been fastened on.
The tractor was there with the trailer attached, its tailboard unfastened.
It's one of America's least "churched" cities, but the religious community fashioned Neighbors in Need as a response to the 1970's Boeing recession. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
Look out for fashionable twists on uniform basics such as wrap-over cargo-style skirts from £9.
Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
It seems that the foreign secretary is a fast learner. Times, Sunday Times
King Richard, as a just guerdon for all his fascinorous actions and horrible murders, was slain in the field.
Tournament organiser Ussher Watson will take late entries for the junior events this evening at Belfast 647934.
Fashion outlets, also known as discount warehouse stores, are large shopping areas often located on a city's outskirts.
Her words came so fast that I cannot attempt their semblance here, and her voice rose and fell in a kind of querulous chant to which sometimes she nodded her head, as if she was beating the time. The Fool Errant
Hamilton is setting fast times on the road, but no-one is matching the splits of leading duo David Millar and Laszlo Bodrogi.
The unposed, rather awkward-looking, front-on shots remind us that fashion is not all about celebrity and stylists.
That was the genesis of the cartoon, which fascinates the young and the old.
Rosie decides that a maternity fashion show highlighting her latest collection would be the perfect shower event because that is in no way a conflict of interest, and we soon learn the real motivation behind this choice -- a model casting montage in which LT wears a sequined capelet the color of Grimace from McDonaldland and tells the models to "serve and deliver. Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 5: Serve and Deliver
Most nuns fasted to keep the rule: the anorexics fasted to break it.
All the accommodation is decorated in as minimalist fashion as luxury will allow, reflecting the vibrant colours of the region, from warm terracotta to the cool turquoise of the sea.
In the premise of quality assurance, product diversification, style fashion, and make our products sell well at home and abroad, and won the trust of our customers and highly praised.
No certainty there of a fast surface. The Sun
I had a strange fascination with the MGM toons when I was young, especially Droopy.
The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
Protein powders are considered to be a fast route to a leaner body. Times, Sunday Times
Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market.
The clinical studies were carried out on 245 patients with fascioliasis in 6 trials, and on 261 people with paragonimiasis in 3 trials. Chapter 2
THE fashionista's go-to place for bang on trend style. The Sun
Besides, far more important than the vagaries of fashion is what suits you. Times, Sunday Times
The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.
It is a cruel fashion irony, but a shapeless dress looks good only on a shapely body. Times, Sunday Times
I put the parchment down on the board, loosely, without fastening it. THE CALLIGRAPHER
models displayed clothes on a catwalk at the fashion show
Wehave shown for the first time that small intestinal and whole gut transit is faster in patients with chronic radiation enteritis.
Winning the Varsity matches, and in reasonably comfortable fashion, is cause for celebration.
The cost of houses has risen faster than purchasing power.
Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
I'm fascinated by how involuted discussions of race and society become.
It's like quail hunting: A short, light 20-gauge gun is faster than a big, heavy 12 in covering a covey rise.
The miniskirt was the defining fashion statement for London in the 1960's and it was reportedly developed by Mary Quant, who ran a clothing store in Chelsea. PWTorch.com
She goes swimming every morning before breakfast. What you wear for this activity is usually called a swimming costume in BrE and a bathing suit in AmE.
When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.
Beneath the splenium of the corpus callosum, the dentate gyrus becomes flattened and smooth and continues on to the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum as the thin gyrus fasciolaris.
Anyone who buys this breakfast food gets a free gift of a fine greeting card.
We're moving forward faster than any country in the world, but for me it's not going fast enough
It appears that the function of the interspinous ligament may be to maintain the tension in the thoraco-lumbar fascia.
A new academic journal, Fashion Theory, hopes to document and analyze such moments in the evolution of the style industry.
Retreat into acute fast.
Forget Mr Motivator, this bumbag revival can be revolutionary to the fashion glitterati. TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
All of the males present were rich or titled or fashionable, often all three, while the females were the cr@eme de la cr@eme of the demireps. Dearly Beloved
The morons do not even protect the exposed steel with paint - and something as simple and old-fashioned as using galvanized bolts in the first place is clearly way beyond their ken.
It is necessary to have lived in the depths of the French provinces to form an idea of the four brutifying years which the young fellow spent in this fashion. The Fortune of the Rougons
It never failed to be fascinating reading - the replaying of familiar events and familiar data through the specific lens of organized labor.
When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
Welcome to the authoritarian world of health fascism.
One end of the clay cord was formed into a loop and fastened with a smaller coil of clay wrapped around it.
How about reaching up your back from behind as if you wanted to fasten some buttons or tie an apron on?
A fascinator, for those of you who have been living in a cardboard box under the stairs for the past six months, is a dinky little head piece that is set to knock the traditional big race day hats into a cocked hat this year.
Every day she eats beans on toast followed by an egg mayonnaise sandwich for breakfast.
You will be surprised to see how fast your system boots this time.
I also readily recall those days when we had sweet water - for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The President is keen to notch a political triumph that would foster freer world trade and faster economic growth.
I would strongly suggest to Mr. Greer that he keep his fascist-indoctrinated, ritalin-sotted brats away from my children in Florida's socialist (public) schools. Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children
Its rate of growth was fast — much more like that of an ape than that of a human.
Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
High jinks and fast-moving action prove another winning combination for Bad Boy cops Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in this long-awaited sequel.
The notorious fact-checkers of The New Yorker are irritating not only because they often prove how fallible are our memories, but because they seem to mechanize what ought to be a natural, unmediated, fast-moving process. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
I based myself at Ibsen's, an art-filled eco-friendly hotel on fashionable Nansensgade, an easy walk from the city center and after viewing artwork at the National Gallery of Denmark, I lunched at Aamann's, specializing in a modern take on the traditional open-faced Danish sandwich called the smorrebrod. Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma
Bon sinon mercredi ou jeudi (mais j'vais prendre mercredi si jeudi j'suis tout seul ca va pas et 'simple) faut que j'fasse une affiche qui pete bien pour la promo du poisson .... Pinku-tk Diary Entry
At the beginning, Asked For is in Venice with her father, where she meets an ageing Jacob to use the English version of his name Casanova; her father dies, and she begins to travel with the man who fascinates her. Susan Swan: What Casanova Told Me
Charged they were that they worshipped an ass's head; which impious folly -- first fastened on the Jews by Tacitus, Hist., lib.v. cap. 1, in these words, "Effigiem animalis, quo monstrante errorem sitimque depulerant, penetrali sacravere" (having before set out a feigned direction received by a company of asses), which he had borrowed from Apion, a railing Egyptian of Alexandria [224] -- was so ingrafted in their minds that no defensative could be allowed. The Sermons of John Owen
Andrew noticed the sudden change of direction, as the wave moved faster towards them.
The party aims to attract votes from the business and professional communities, which want a faster pace of political reform.
After breakfast, basking herself in the sun, Frona descried a familiar bunch of men rounding the tail of the glacier in the direction of CHAPTER 4
Their steadfast love in the face of horror can only be admired.
Your advertisers saw your terrific ratings that spanned across the board -- your demo being virtually every demo -- so they hawked everything from Viagra to gaming and condoms to candy bars during your time slot; those ratings were due partly to the Sci-Fi Channel's smartly treating you like its golden child, not emaciating your following by constantly changing your air time (did someone say, "Fascape"?). Mike Ragogna: OMG! No More BSG!
But come Saturday night, they gather in Johannesburg basements, decked out to the nines and stylishly vogue like New York fashionistas.
The Bush stooges and their lackeys in the media know that they are hanging by a tenuous thread that is unraveling ever faster and faster.
Concorde was the first supersonic passenger jet - capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. Times, Sunday Times
I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
As soon as the Red Sox saw he had neither, they ignored his breaking balls and feasted on his fastballs en route to a 6-4 win on Tuesday night in the Bronx. Score Sheet
If the abundance of leather, suede, sheepskin and fur heading for our high street fashion stores is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding yes.
Malayan barn owls are adapting quickly to this rich habitat and are reproducing much faster than elsewhere.
Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.
They knew they had to act fast to save this young man's life.
Acid-fast staining should be done if tuberculosis is clinically suspected.
But I have to say, I did fast forward through that dreadful speech by the odious brother and through the drippy prayers from the drippy archbish.
A man who drives fast is a menace to other people.
Stop messing with the spoon and finish your breakfast.
More important in MMA is skills, fast hips, a good sprawl, well rounded skill and natural genetics. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402
Puffas/ subzero parkas are fine if you're sitting around doing nothing. Times, Sunday Times
The engraving shows that Geometry / Melancholy has not succeeded in fashioning a regular dodecahedron.
For years, breakfast for me has been a smoothie made with an apple, a banana, blueberries and rice or soy milk.
On her right stood an empty cottage, fast becoming derelict.
We washed some bread down with a glass of milk for breakfast.
I got my boyfriend to come and see and we saw them move fast past the front of our house and out of sight.
That went hand in hand with an old-fashioned liberal humanism. Times, Sunday Times
He could sink that harpoon 3 feet into a whale and once fast it was not long before he was on the whale's back driving the lance 6 feet into its vitals.
Alifabs Ambassador extruded aluminium fascia gutter and rainwater system is the design ideal for both new and existing buildings.
The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
I basically look at the game as a parkour simulation with a story wrapped around it, and the aim of parkour is to get from one place to another as fast as possible. Scattershot On My Way Out
I guess the term for that is "social networking," but I remain more interested in the social than the networking, and blogging under a pseudonym six or eight times a month in a personal essayish vein isn't exactly the fast lane to fame and influence. Archive 2009-05-01
Ring roll, earring fasteners and pouches accommodate all kinds of jewelry.
But the possible bolters are there, too: two 18-year-olds in Sam Harrison and Laura Trott, both clearly being fast-tracked towards London with a view to riding in the omnium, and a more outside bet in the 20‑year‑old Welshwoman Dani King, who has a chance of a place in the women's team pursuit just a month after her first appearance at a World Cup. Team GB's young pretenders make a bolt for London 2012 Olympic places
I repeated it easily; I'd always been a fast learner with languages.
The vermis, running down the middle, connects with the right and left fastigial nuclei.
Pont's plan was to remould Sharma's javelin hurl into a biomechanically perfect round-arm sling, in the process creating a fast-bowling Frankenstein's monster. Why Samit Patel's cricket skill set carries so much weight | Barney Ronay
A consignment of hatted and parasoled ladies was coming fast adown the avenue. Seven Men
I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out
Spesso le mie visite a Newark coincidono con uno dei voli Air India, e sono sempre molto affascinata dai piccoli teatrini della gente che arriva e parte. Archive 2009-02-01
The artists use acrylic enamel, which dries fast when heat is applied.
But what you gain in fashion you lose in function: Unlike the "callet," you have to pull the phone from the case to make a call, check a text or take a photo. $39 plus $20 shipping; porter.com The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
He joked: ‘George launched a ship in Belfast and it was three miles out at sea before he let go of the bottle.’
Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
If I am guessing right, this might just end up coming back to me in 'karma' fashion. Should I bring them or not?
The cameras have been upgraded, with a revamped flash and faster focus. The Sun
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Charles De Gaulle
Everyone knows that Trots and fashion don't mix.
We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
Solutions attempted in piecemeal fashion, as we've seen thus far, would amount to constantly putting out recurring fires. State Bailouts? They've Already Begun
Fashanu will give Jones, who he believes is one of soccer's most misunderstood men, a glowing character reference.
The company also caters breakfast or lunch every week and funds other periodic after-hours activities such as karting, shooting, paintball. Jobs.joelonsoftware.com
The fashion-forward actress, who graces the FROW of countless fashion events, showed off her trim figure in a form-fitting number.
Data costs about $0.05 per MB and it is pretty reliable and fastish I got about 380kbit/s connection speed. 2008 January « My Life in Kharkov
The team ensured that civilian airliners and local mustering aircraft were kept out of the way of the fast jets.
How fast does the new computer process the data?
No, y’all are using terms legal terms that have established meanings in haphazard and sloppy fashion. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 3/4
What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
The megastructure continues to fascinate architects and urbanists.
Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws. Times, Sunday Times
Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies USATODAY.com
It also far outlived the Nazi and Fascist regimes. A Renegade History of the United States
Stylelist. com The Rapunzel-locked lovelies on Nanette Lepore's Fall 2010 runway looked like they had stepped straight out of, enamoring seen-it-all fashion statement on the red carpet while honoring tradition at the same WN.com - Articles related to Chocoholics unite for Chocolate Week
After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
Copies of this schedule should be constructed in such a fashion that easy access be afforded the data collection process.
On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
Do you want a boiled egg for breakfast?
And there were so many fascinating plants, edelweiss, even: who would have imagined that? KARA KUSH
Plants are propagated from cuttings fastened to the ground.
The kitchen juts out from the dining room and has a breakfast area with a pentagonal roof light.
Farm shops go from strength to strength and growing vegetables in allotments is fashionable. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of being given a single engined aircraft as was usual, we were allowed to use one of the latest and fastest new twin-engined bombers!
Do not run too fast after gain.
There is space for a four-seater breakfast table as well as plumbing for a dishwasher.
He thereby provides both a theology of the resurrection and a theology of the liturgy: one encounters the risen Christ in the word and in the sacrament; divine service is the fashion in which he becomes touchable to us and recognizable as the living Christ. The book by Joseph Ratzinger that "changed history"
Since peak blood alcohol levels (BALs) reached per drinking episode are a crucial factor in FAS (Abel, 1999), the ‘average drinks’ measure distorts the relationship between alcohol and teratogenesis and muddies our perceptions of risky drinking. Pregnancy is a process
Metallic tiles are fashionable right now, and these patterned designs will add a luxurious sheen to walls and floors. Times, Sunday Times
For the Schlachtfest, Stralsunders gathered in hundreds, the women in their dirndls and men in old-fashioned suits, gobbling pig knuckle, leberwurst, knockwurst, dozens of waxy, greasy boiled potatoes, and of course, blutwurst. Blood Lite II: Overbite
We ate at a fashionable new restaurant.
You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
They print several times faster than dot matrix printers.
But don't forget that some short, very fast sprints are needed for anaerobic conditioning.
The museum has a fascinating collection of Celtic artifacts.
Tough as steel in his adherence to principle, resilient, placable, self-less and generous beyond the dictates of fashion, steadfast in friendship, but not at the price of reason, he strides the world of mathematics a happy warrior.
The 2002 World Champion gold medallists advanced with the fastest time from the first semi-final.
Toxins accumulate faster, and viruses and bacteria grow more quickly, in a body that is not adequately warmed.
We are trying to make the point that fur is never going to be back in fashion.
So they recover faster from illnesses.
I had refastened it in a simple bowknot, a sort of knot which on Gor, in certain contexts, as in the present context, is spoken of as a slave knot. Renegades Of Gor
an unblushing apologist for fascism
Not only does it cover the levant, Asia minor and southern Europe but it is a fascinating cultural trek that covers many cultures and languages Wandering Neanderthals
Upper Volta (former name Burkina Faso 13 00 N 2 00 W for Burkina Faso) The 2007 CIA World Factbook
And then you've got the work in the luxury saloon sector, where people are phoning out for still bigger pieces of aluminium and ordering up even larger chunks of birchwood, in accordance with a mission to go faster, fatter.

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