How To Use Necker In A Sentence

She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
It has stunning views down the River Necker and was on the doorstep of easily accessible attractions.
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
November 26, 2009 1:51 AM ishmael bin necker said... BSNYC Pre-Holiday Fun Quiz!
Princes William and Harry, with friends, bury their mother under the sand while on vacation on Necker Island in April 1990.

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Pitt planted tall trees outside his home to block rubberneckers.
A colonial attire that is still seen on males in the rural areas is loose baggy pants called bombachas, and a short jacket with a neckerchief in place of a shirt.
Edwards himself was in brilliant brogues, razor-creased tan slacks and blazer over silk shirt and neckerchief.
The old fellow travelers and Honecker claques became deputies and ministers in reunited Germany, just as former Nazis enjoyed political careers after the war. The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others
The whole incident had made me feel indescribably dirty, like a rubbernecker at the site of a car crash. John Belushi Is Dead
Cay Wesnigk mined the archives of the East German state film studio to chronicle the regime's rise and fall, with instructional films about threats from the West, TV shows indoctrinating children, and the East German leader Erich Honecker and his wife, Margot, waltzing at the twilight of the so-called German Democratic Republic. Reconstructive History
Easily trumping both Musha and Necker at 1, 000 square acres, Parrot Cay (formerly named Pirate Cay, before the owners thought better of it) is only accessible by boat, so yacht owners are preferred.
And it looked quite similar to how a neckerchief or scarf might appear around the neck when worn, in fact.
December 23, 2009 11:28 AM esau bin necker said... The New Spin: From Fixed to Broken
The radiant heat beat against his face and before long, he wrapped his neckerchief around his face because the air was so hot.
He announced to the assembly that he would recall Necker, and repair to Paris the following day. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
Similar in purpose to the gorget of medieval plate armor, the neckerchief served to deflect arrows, broadswords, and even great axes from slicing through the vulnerable neck of a cowboy.
For all our grousing about rubberneckers, who among us doesn't slow down to gawk at a car wreck?
I hiked into palm washes and up unmarked trails, always water, carrying water everywhere, always a hat, wearing a broadbrimmed hat and a neckerchief, and I stood on promontories in punishing sun, stood and looked. Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
The hub of Necker is the Great House -- a vast Balinese style lodge that features a master bedroom with panoramic views and a private outdoor Jacuzzi.
Totally private, Necker has only one residence, a magnificent villa of breathtaking Balinese design.
His work followed that of Kronecker in the development of arithmetic in algebraic number fields.
So, the question is whether the DDR was worse or better than, f.e., the United Emirates and honestly, I'd rather live in Abu Dabi than in East-Berlin during the Honecker times ... Bryan Gets Some Pushback, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The sisters can then wear the neckerchief slides in their hair.
The multi-million-pound Great House on Necker, the Virgin tycoon's 60million private island, was struck by lightning in the early hours of Monday when the region was battered by 90mph Hurricane Irene.
Purpling historians starch neckerchiefs/buff ploughs in preparation for latest "living history" wow-fayre Catchup TV: the turn-ons and turn-offs
He pulled on his vest, buttoning it quickly, then the topcoat, and tied on his neckerchief.
With his dungarees, red neckerchief, beard and constantly oily hands, I couldn't help seeing him as a displaced U-boat skipper - or perhaps my imagination was working overtime.
The film company had blocked off this section of town but there were thousands of rubberneckers wanting to catch a glimpse of the star.
The man in corduroy and dirty neckerchief no longer addressed me as THE DESCENT
Wearing their bright yellow sweatshirts and neckerchiefs, which are so easily recognisable, they stand out like a badge of courage.
Last year Branson unveiled a three-person submarine called the Necker Nymph, which is available for $2,500 a day for guests of his private resort in the Caribbean. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Where there were six intendants of finance, each costing more than a million livres a year, Necker installed four salaried secretaries answering to him alone. Robert Morris
Now, who recalls that it was her group, New Forum, that organized the silent candlelight marches that surrounded and eventually strangled the regime of Erich Honecker? Remembering Baerbel Bohley, an artist who helped bring down the Berlin Wall
An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss--but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
If I went to New York I would be worse than a rubbernecker. Todd Greene: Irene In New York and Natural Disaster Rubbernecking
Louis was forced to assent to all the demands of the people; he recalled Necker, and showed himself at the Hôtel de Ville wearing the national cockade or tricolour. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration
Laura decides to place her father's old Cub Scout neckerchief to a tree root in front of the tower where Grandfather's name is painted.
Piperidine, the decomposition product of piperine, which we have shown may be considered to be hexahydropyridine, was examined by Dr. Kronecker, of Berlin, at the request of Prof. Hofmann, and was found to have an action upon animals in many respects resembling that of conine. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
But someone clearly objects to rubberneckers such as me coming to gawp at Hitler's legacy: on dozens of the boarded-up windows, someone has spraypainted "Touris raus! Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd
Staring at the nude female sunbather fifteen floors below, her tattooed backside exposed so that everyone in the surrounding high-rises could admire or cajole or admonish from the windows next to their cubicles, office workers on every floor calling friends or documenting the view with cell-phone cameras, I realized that no matter how holy or removed from the everyday we might be, we are all rubberneckers to the mundane absurdities that materialize seemingly out of nowhere. The Cult of Impersonailty
Nearly everyone dresses in the traditional white with red neckerchiefs and sashes.
Hagen Koch was turned from a technical draughtsman into Erich Honecker's personal cartographer - he literally drew the line that the Berlin Wall would follow.
A neckerchief round a sore throat will sometimes nip colds in the bud.
I wear a sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding-trousers; alligator-hide boots; and with my pearl-hilted revolver and beautifully finished Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
The Leaders, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers that were invested were presented with a neckerchief, woggle and an investiture certificate.
The smell was so bad that Renji, who was right next to the door, had pulled up his neckerchief; he looked like a western bandit.
“We have done our perestroika,” Honecker told Gorbachev, “we have nothing to restructure.” The Return
Questions remain after woman is charged with killing her 2 teens for being 'mouthy' Questions remain after woman is charged with killing her 2 teens for being 'mouthy' - When police responded to a call from a concerned relative and found Julie Schenecker on the back porch of her Tampa home, they said she was covered in blood and made a gut-wrenching admission: She had killed her teenage son and daughter because they were "mouthy. StarTribune.com rss feed
A flunkey in mufti is as unseemly an object as a soldier on furlough, with his jacket unbuttoned and his neat stock replaced by a coloured neckerchief. Echoes of the Week
Becoming a Google rubbernecker -- gawking at someone's life from afar and finding something insulting or embarrassing there -- reminds me of the prank of pasting a "Kick Me Hard" sign on an unwitting victim's back. Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: In a Google World, Do You Have the 'Right to Be Forgotten'?
He recalled Necker, went to the Hôtel de Ville, sanctioned by his presence the accomplished facts, and accepted from La Fayette, commandant of the National Guard, the new cockade of red, white, and blue which allied the colours of Paris to those of the king. The Psychology of Revolution
She was rattling on almost feverishly, never looking at him, restless in her saddle, shifting bridle, adjusting stirrups, gun-case, knotting and reknotting her neckerchief, all with that desperate attempt at composure which betrays the courage that summons it. The Firing Line
These ramenta explain fully the nature of those confervoid organs found in some Neckerae, and perhaps in other mosses, and it becomes paramount to prove whether these Neckerae have also the usual anthers, or if they are confined to these, in which case a presumptive proof will thus be afforded of their functions: if they have both forms, they will nevertheless constitute an analogous passage between the two orders: if they have only _these_, such Neckerae will form, as indeed they do, a very distinct genus. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
But if the USC trial vindicates the mucin approach, Longenecker's team will have many other leads to follow. A Vaccine For Breast Cancer?
Beat’s outer trappings — black turtlenecks, cigarette pants, neckerchiefs, berets — is indebted less to Jack Kerouac and his wayward cohort, who slouched about in frayed flannel shirts, than to stylized interpretations in movies like “Funny Face” or the less well-known “Subterraneans,’’ a 1960 film based on a Kerouac novel about the kinky denizens of North Beach in San Francisco. August 2006
The dachshund was wearing a jaunty, matching neckerchief. Times, Sunday Times
She threw a neckerchief around her neck.
November 9, 2009 4:25 PM red neckerson i mean ibn bin necker said... Let's Get Cultural: Cycling Causes Importance
On Necker, the pace is tropical, the ambience exotic.
He'd been sitting at home when the doorbell rang and when he answered it there stood before him a young boy scout, resplendent in his uniform with neckerchief and woggle, who asked him ‘Bob-a-job, sir?’
As he said it, Master Bates caught up an end of his neckerchief; and, holding it erect in the air, dropped his head on his shoulder, and jerked a curious sound through his teeth; thereby indicating, by a lively pantomimic representation, that scragging and hanging were one and the same thing. Oliver Twist
..n' red neckerson...that "likker cabnet" can be a real 'pandora's box' if ya know what i mean... About Face: Cycling and Changing Direction
Nearly everyone dresses in the traditional white with red neckerchiefs and sashes.
For instance, tests in schools have shown that few students know who Erich Honecker was, but most consider East Germany to have been a democratic, lawful state and the Stasi a normal secret service. The Lives of Nazis, the Stasi and Others
The young gentleman had bought a light sky-blue neckerchief, and a very large breast-pin containing a gem which he was assured by the vender was a genuine stone. The Guardian Angel
He tied his neckerchief around his throat then put his hat on before he opened the front door.
Pitt planted tall trees outside his home to block rubberneckers.
Complex multiplication and modular forms had been treated in the 19th century by Kronecker and Heinrich Weber, who discovered their link with class field theory.
He handed her one of the navy blue neckerchiefs worn with their uniforms.
Meanwhile in New Hampshire, ARG has the race tightening up an producing the potential for a three way neck and necker by election day. Archive 2004-01-01
Several diagonal dominant properties and ∞ - norm inequalities for Kronecker product of diagonally dominant matrices are given.
Everyone was tired and worried and the rubberneckers were making them feel "dispirited", he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Four were arrested on the orders of the chief public prosecutor, but Mr Honecker was let off because of ill health.
In my scarlet red neckerchief, I really thought I was a big cheese.
Wearing her official dress, including frothy neckerchief, she made a short speech as she accepted her certificate.
She was on her knees beside him, loosening his neckerchief.
Necker, of course, stood for control of the grain trade and subsidized bread prices.
Like a rubbernecker driving past a horrifically bloody accident, I can't seem to stop myself from watching the carnage.
Louis XVI recalled Necker to his job and agreed to recognise the National Assembly, which included the Third Estate delegates, poorer clergy and nobility sympathetic to the Third Estate cause. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
An initial and rough answer to this last question is contained in our discussion so far: Dedekind's approach is set-theoretic and infinitary, while Kronecker's is constructivist and finitary. Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics
We should begin here by reviewing two related aspects: the roots of Dedekind's number-theoretic investigations in the works of Gauss, Dirichlet, and Ernst Eduard Kummer; and the contrast between Dedekind's approach in this area and that of Leopold Kronecker. Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics
December 23, 2009 11:02 AM easu bin necker said... The New Spin: From Fixed to Broken
November 28, 2009 10:38 AM ishmael bin necker said... BSNYC Pre-Holiday Fun Quiz!
and Mr. Neckerson, do the responsible things and rubberize your ass. Letting it All Hang Out: Naked Riders, Vulnerable Bikes
I had my Howard Jones haircut at the time, incongruous against my woggle and neckerchief.
In my scarlet red neckerchief, I really thought I was a big cheese.
Alarmed at these proceedings the king discharged his new ministers; recalled Necker; sent away the foreign troops, and threw himself into the arms of the nation. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
An initial and rough answer to this last question is contained in our discussion so far: Dedekind's approach is set-theoretic and infinitary, while Kronecker's is constructivist and finitary. Dedekind's Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics
During the remainder of 1970, Honecker built up support within the Politburo and the Central Committee.
BGW: how about the word actuator instead of trigger with respect to Mr. Redneckerson...it carries more of the engineer chic that is so popular with the kids these days. BSNYC Summer Recess Announcement (and Friday Fun Quiz!)
It is no lollygagging rubbernecker of sorrow. Times, Sunday Times
I felt like a rubbernecker, but was compelled to know more about this lady. Luxury's 'Freak Category'
traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers
Stelta began to choke, he loosened his neckerchief hurriedly, to get more air but it had little effect.
But you don't have to wear a woggle and neckerchief while tying 76 types of knots and helping old ladies across camp fires, or something, to know that that doesn't apply when the team's manager strops off into the sunset just five days before the start of the new season, leaving the club's plans in a bigger mess than the Gulf of Mexico. The Jumping-Up-And-Down-Like-An-Angry-Tigger Routine
Mr Honecker is up a pole and all the ladders offered him to climb down would be an admission of failure.
Mr Honecker is up a pole and all the ladders offered him to climb down would be an admission of failure.
November 26, 2009 8:08 PM ishmael bin necker said... BSNYC Pre-Holiday Fun Quiz!
We just have to let the indices of the Kronecker delta run from 1 to 3. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
It is probable she had had several new garments since she related to Helen the history of the worm-eaten traveler, but they were all of the same gray color, relieved by the black silk neckerchief and white tamboured muslin cap -- and under the cap there was the same opaque fold of white paper, carefully placed on the top of the head. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
An auction of Madoff family belongings held at New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers in November arguably displayed Americans' fascination with the abyss -- but the rubbernecker-bidders were also doing some good. Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II
Women's costume consisted of underlinen, smock and petticoat, gown, ‘crosse cloths’, apron, neckerchief and coat.
Our waiter was dressed as a cowboy with Elvis sunglasses and a neckerchief.
Madame de Staël, daughter of M. Necker, is now at the head of the colony of French noblesse established near Mickleham. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
Let's face it, we're a nation of rubberneckers, eager to gawk at any accident as long as it is not our own.
So the next time you see a scout in the street, look beyond the woggle and neckerchief – you're looking at a citizen of the future and one of tomorrow's leaders today. Measuring what scouting contributes to local communities
December 27, 2009 12:33 AM esau bin necker said... Wednesday Competition of the Knowledge of the Bicycle Snobs NYC! (And Announcement of Short Recess.)
The group is a leading supplier of neckerchiefs for scouts and guides in the UK and Europe.
More than one fellow rubbernecker judged it fortunate the truck overturned before having a chance to careen across the gravel parking lot and through the beanery's front windows.
-- Every life hangs by a thread, and, on the following days, when the King had sent away his troops, dismissed his Ministers, recalled Necker, and granted everything, the danger remains just as great. The French Revolution - Volume 1
Gathering up Hornblower's vest, topcoat, neckerchief, and hat he bounded out the door.
My wife is EX - east German, Before the fall of the wall, Eric Honecker, iron curtain type stuff. If it smells like socialism.....
He developed Kronecker's polynomial ideals and presented many results on discriminants of forms, elimination theory and Diophantine problems.
A green jacket covered her body, over a white blouse at the neck of which was fastened with an ornate brooch a lace neckerchief.
Excitedly he tied his red neckerchief to the plant's stem and ran home to fetch a shovel.
The fact that he wore a girly neckerchief and Harlequin cap, not typical Aussie attire, made him an easy target.
By keeping rubberneckers back, police minimize the danger from gunfire or explosions.
The actor Steve McQueen was notorious for stealing scenes in which he had no dialogue by ostentatiously fiddling with the brim of his Stetson or adjusting his neckerchief.
December 23, 2009 10:38 PM esau bin necker said... Wednesday Competition of the Knowledge of the Bicycle Snobs NYC! (And Announcement of Short Recess.)
Successive massive pro-democracy demonstrations prompt the resignation of Erich Honecker after 18 years in power.

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