How To Use Pied In A Sentence

Dylan seemed exhausted, self-preoccupied, and morbidly depressed. Touched with Fire
This sort of enamel work on a faceted metal body was copied from the enamelled European watches.
I'd like to have something special planned that will keep them occupied and outside in the garden as much as possible. Times, Sunday Times
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition. Our Frank and other stories

And when they espied the dukes daughter, that was a full fair woman, then by their false covin they made debate betwixt themself, and the duke of his goodness would have departed them, and there they slew him and his eldest son. Chapter XV. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Fought with the Knights of the Castle, and Destroyed the Wicked Custom
Cleland was occupied with his visual recorder, surveyor, gravitometer, and whatever else he could wield in the saddle, or simply with gazing around. Starfarers
Mathers admitted he had followed Ms Evans and spied on her.
In Japan, he sees political parties solely occupied in securing power and preoccupied in increasing strength and influence.
The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements. California Cool
The inn we occupied had one of these porches: Madame Barbot, our landlady, and her maid, were both dressed in Breton costume, with lace-trimmed embroidered caps and aprons of fine muslin, clear-starched and ironed with a perfection which the most accomplished "blanchisseuse du fin" of Paris would find it difficult to surpass. Brittany & Its Byways
Hamlet as a play is similarly preoccupied by slander, misrepresentation and selves fabricated from the nothings of rhetorical tropes.
The U.S. Army Air Force would assist in this latter mission by airdropping his books over occupied France.
Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
In 1974 campaigners occupied the office building to protest about it being left empty during a housing crisis. Times, Sunday Times
Farther along they spied calami, adversi, frail, and pomposi, which were worse, so they gave up on their search for anything better. Faun & Games
Rather, he is to function as an imperial proconsul, wielding unfettered power over a militarily occupied country.
A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
Four main components indicate repeated use of this location as a seasonally occupied camp for the exploitation of riverine resources.
an unoccupied apartment
On top of the rug were four large beanbags, and in the time span it took me to tell all this, those four beanbags were occupied with about 4 to 5 people per beanbag.
When Harold would try to eject them from various occupied premises all over campus, they would tell him to "stop pimping for the administration."
Not surprisingly, the strikers were preoccupied with regaining their jobs and keeping their system of seniority.
Because of the UN failure, the Croatian government has now launched military action to reestablish control over part of the occupied areas.
This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world. Times, Sunday Times
It was probably true that Herkomer had at least copied from photographs in the execution of some of his portrait commissions.
We'd been keeping the bookplates in an unoccupied corner in a reasonably neat pile.
I managed to turn up a copy in both Nagari and Nastaliq of another of his stories, "Khol Do" here or here for Nastaliq; furthermore, the fact that the Devanagari version was copied from a source text gives me hope of finding such an edition for myself... or, of course, I could just finally learn how to read the script... Languagehat.com: SAADAT HASAN MANTO.
The house that he occupied, of Venetian design, and four stories in height, bore many architectural marks of distinction, such as the floriated window, the door with the semipointed arch, and medallions of colored marble set in the walls. The Financier
The fallen tree had been moldy and rotten, the smell strong and unpleasant enough to deter most burrowing animals that would normally have occupied the space.
At the Christmas meeting of the court, in 1085, it was decided, apparently after much debate and probably with special reference to the general land-tax, called the Danegeld, to form by means of inquiries, officially made in each locality, a complete register of the occupied lands of the kingdom, of their holders, and of their values. The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
I have found myself pacing around trying but failing to find things to do to keep my mind occupied, occasionally popping into the nursery in a fatherly manner to make sure that the useless door hinge has not failed on the tallboy.
No photocopied or defaced vouchers accepted. The Sun
Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
You'll have to accept the terms to continue at which point it will appear to be installing, but in actual fact the files are just being copied to the location you specified.
A group of scientists from the University of South Carolina in Columbia says that they've used geological anomalies, as well as clues from rock samples, to identify an ancient crater buried beneath the piedmont sediments of their state.
Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
The grassy slopes were grazed by apparently fearless and footsure sheep, and in parts the sheer cliffs were occupied by seabirds - fulmars, kittiwakes and auks.
Only six percent of police time is occupied with criminal incidents.
Assisted by the Ford Foundation, I photocopied mountains of Congress papers.
Not that I mind so much working late on a Friday, since it helps to keep my mind occupied and prevents me contemplating my woeful lack of a meaningful social life.
The Latin translation of Petrus Bertius was literally copied for me by another friend in Holland, Dr.M. Cohen Stuart, from the Scripta adversaria Collationis Hagiensis, Lugd. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
This afternoon, whilst I was chatting to an elderly couple who wanted directions to somewhere, my eyes wandered to the car park verge and espied a single solitary daffodil blooming in the late winter sun.
Northern Territory News reported that a three-metre "saltie" spied on a group of fishermen before tucking into the shark they had just reeled in. The Guardian World News
After all, it was assumed that all monks could read and write. Monasteries also contained libraries and scriptoria, or writing rooms, in which manuscripts were copied.
Ms. Wilder called the co-op, located on West 81st Street at Columbus Avenue, 'the ultimate pied-à-terre.' Upper West Side Escape
The Opposition front bench, and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.
I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
It had emerged that security badges at the base were obsolete and could be copied easily, while identity and vehicle checks were cursory at best. Times, Sunday Times
Rome lay too far from the vulnerable frontiers; Constantinople occupied a position about equidistant from the Germans on the lower Danube and the Persians on the Euphrates. Early European History
So the enlarged south transept took in the slype, and it occupied the end bay with the broad gallery and the sanctuary chamber filling the space above.
It had something to do with sex—complete with pictures—and the dog-eared corners attested to its being quickly stashed under mattresses in numerous adolescent occupied homes.
The hills, so dense with madrone and manzanita they seem canopied in green, echo back.
Nor had she looked narrowly into his eyes and espied the imminence of his escape, as he'd feared she could. BARN BLIND
Designed in the 1970s, the Oberoi was the first of the luxury hotels to build lanais in the local vernacular, a style much copied by subsequent architects.
Some U. N. officials are now warning of a humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories and saying it isn't far off.
Our southern ally's loyalty to her beautiful "unredeemed" provinces, and her claim, which all right-minded Englishmen (I include myself) most heartily endorse, to dominate the historically Italian waters of the Adriatic, happily proved too strong for a machine-made sympathy for Berlin based on nothing better than a superficial resemblance between the histories of Piedmont and Prussia, and a record of nominal alliance with powers whose respect for paper treaties was always fairly apparent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917
Humans are also preoccupied by fantasy & fiction of all types, even especially? knowing that it is *fiction*, we do not have to hypothesize a platonic realm to explain that... Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The murder of a boy by police sparked renewed unrest in the occupied zone.
About three quarters of both groups lived in owner occupied or council housing.
In the second stage, the individual becomes preoccupied with this problem and withdraws from active social life. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
I thought this was strange, but I was occupied at the time with trying to finalize my divorce.
Of course, if she's busy reading or otherwise occupied, she sends the sprog in her place to do the necessary.
There was a long journey ahead of us, so we only remained during the time that was occupied in outspanning the tired mules and inspanning the fresh lot. Argentina from a British Point of View
Whisper glided across the dark bay, having spied in the distance a tall building perched on the edge of a cliff.
However, it is hoped to have another exhibition later in the year and anyone who would like to give photos for this can bring them to Lorrarine Foy who will have them copied and the originals returned immediately.
I typed out a letter on headed note paper, photocopied it 30 times and as a good clubman paid for the postage myself and sent them off.
He politely insists that his unsuspecting victim, whom he has spied on the stairs of their apartment block, share a drink with him. Times, Sunday Times
These extremely productive people like to be occupied in their leisure time with pursuits such as craftwork, hiking or reading.
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Four-poster and canopied beds should be avoided, or at least their heavy drapes should be replaced with lightweight muslin or cotton ones which can be washed at high temperatures to kill the mites.
Hundreds of us occupied the cathedral cloisters and held a short rally.
Cecil was too occupied to notice the last part, and so didn't ask any questions.
But it also takes a huge toll on their businesses, which suffer when employees are preoccupied by something other than their work. Times, Sunday Times
Within a week, Hitler had occupied the Sudetenland, and six months later German tanks rolled into Prague.
The book, which went on to be widely copied and imitated, introduced the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of Arabic numerals into Europe.
He flipped on the light, spied her on the bed, and his expression darkened with concern. Ecstasy in Darkness
As usual, the centerfold of the magazine will be occupied with a large, full-color reproduction of an artwork suitable for display on a classroom wall.
The only time that students in my class were reprimanded en masse for plagiarism, they had copied literatim large chunks of the introduction to the textbook used in class! WSJIDEBATE: Are Students Too Reliant on the Internet for Research?
Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company.
Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
The bulk of the rest of the block between Second Avenue and Bowery is occupied by the Avalon at Bowery Place apartment complex. Diving Into Downtown Culture
Work is still chaotic, but at least I have my online friends to keep me occupied and entertained.
We then printed out the modified photo and my father copied the design to the real airplane.
Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core.
In winter Miranda is home to birds from New Zealand's South Island, particularly wrybills, pied oystercatchers and kotuku (white herons).
The datable artifacts indicated that the site may have been occupied as early as the 1670s and that it fell out of use by the middle of the eighteenth century, apparently not long after Uring's visit.
These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories.
Their so-called microcredit lending system is copied in more than 100 countries, including right here in the U.S. CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2006
Near the heart of town, I spied a group of cowboys herding some cattle into a fenced-off pasture.
she keeps her time well occupied
This event occupied a very short time
Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slily about for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the swords were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney – corner, an old basket – hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed.
Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
Since so little was known of the species' ecology or distribution, work concentrated in the central piedmont, especially the Broad River watershed.
One morning in June, 1589, the space within the main gate of the Juraku palace was seen to be occupied throughout a length of nearly three hundred yards with gold and silver coins heaped up on trays each containing one hundred and fifty pieces. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
During the 16th century the area was occupied by the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch.
His mannerisms are more those of a preoccupied math professor.
I was more preoccupied by the life-size models of the pelvis and newborn doll. Times, Sunday Times
Concrete pillboxes were constructed above the high tide mark, soldiers occupied some of the cottages along the shore front and guards prevented anyone going on the beach at night.
For the first and last time in her life, Amelia was too preoccupied to interact with her peers.
The Platinum Pied Pipers have taken music and twisted and scrunched it into Triple P to produce a refreshing, multi-talented, many-layered masterpiece of modern music.
In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last? Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
Most of the ground floor was inaccessible to the public, and was otherwise occupied by a small café and three temporary exhibition rooms. Times, Sunday Times
A batter becomes a runner when the third strike called by the umpire is not caught, providing (1) first base is unoccupied, or (2) first base is occupied with two out. USATODAY.com - Pierzynski's heads-up play keeps Sox alive
the wc is occupied
Patrick never, like the Pied Piper, charmed actual snakes into mass suicide so the Irish people wouldn't ever have to worry about them again -- but he did "rid" the island of the snake-tattooed Druids, in a way. Chris Weigant: Saint Patrick and the Snakes
Polar bears have successfully occupied virtually all available sea ice habitats throughout the circumpolar Arctic and the global population was last estimated at 21,500-25,000 individuals.
I had copied him in on the memo, of course, and I asked him how he thought the president-elect would react. The Good Fight
The story is inspired by the true tales of puppeteers and entertainers in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.
A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt. Vanity Fair
Latvians who escaped persecution in their occupied country and set up home in Bradford have been given a special preview of a moving exhibition.
China's Trump Card Once mocked as over-designed and under-occupied, Shanghai's Pudong district is now a bright spot. Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up
Hadley's impending nuptials preoccupied Aunt Grace with a feverish monomania. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence...
Whilst they were debating these points, the Lacedaemonians had incorporated the men of Tegea and the men of Mantinea, and were ready to debouch into the bimarine region. 256 And as the two armies advanced almost at the same time, the Corinthians and the rest reached the Nemea,257 and the Lacedaemonians and their allies occupied Sicyon. Hellenica
The back of the hotel bordered on an empty space occupied only by weeds and mangy dogs. LORD OF THE SILENT
From our mathematical model we calculated the probabilities of different numbers of beds being occupied.
Although other centres such as Lorsch, Micy, and Metz also produced single-volume pandects, it was more usual for individual books or groups of books of the Bible to be copied.
However, it is relatively expensive to "surf the net" and the telephone line is occupied so calls cannot be made.
So, here I would only talk about a few rather arbitrary points that have occupied my mind in the recent days and leave the rest to other people to explore.
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The bus was very crowded with a number of people standing as all the seats were occupied.
A baya of enterprise, energy and skill may be the proud builder of four nests in a colony, each happily occupied with a female on eggs.
He considers that "at an uncertain period during the occupancy of the Lacies, the first principle of population" (in these forests) commenced; it was found that these wilds, bleak and barren as they were, might be occupied to some advantage in breeding young and depasturing lean Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster
The mountains remained mostly unoccupied until the slaves were emancipated in 1838.
Much of the region is occupied by sand dunes, with areas of calcrete and silcrete. Great Victoria desert
The distinction of the Teniers was the extreme fidelity and cleverness with which they copied (but did not explain) the life they knew -- the homeliest, humblest aspect of life. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
He phoned the neighbour, only to discover that he was away, then spied two burglars running from the house. Times, Sunday Times
Harold Ings, 86, a bombardier with the Royal Artillery was one of the soldiers whose unit was surrounded by Germans in occupied France.
But there were a number of flowerless, champagneless tables and at least three of them were occupied by unaffiliated diners. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
For the Soviet Union, the return to any nation of territory occupied during the war would create a dangerous precedent.
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
Children in Finland who occupied a mold-contaminated school building suffered from asthma and/or allergy and had higher antibodies than nonallergic children.
The wooden canopied bimah was not in the middle of the shul, but - in Sephardic fashion - just to the right of the entrance doorway.
The occupying State shall be regarded only as administrator and usufructuary of public buildings, real estate, forests, and agricultural estates belonging to the hostile State, and situated in the occupied country.
In our society, men historically have occupied the positions of power such as master and host.
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There were four or five pictures -- one, a bass-relief of Endymion, deep asleep, yet conscious in his dream that the moon is peeping shyly over his polished shoulder, had been copied from a famous original by Sophie herself. Bressant
The design was copied from an English home and was built in stone imported from Bath.
America conventionally attaches a rider to Israeli aid, to the effect that it must not be used in the occupied territories.
The French call a particular plant fungus the pourriture noble, or “noble rot,” for its influence on the character of certain wines, and the Surrealist poet Leon-Paul Fargue is said to have honored Camembert cheese with the title les pieds de Dieu—the feet of God. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The design is copied from Japanese porcelains of the fourteenth century.
Liberals were seen as weak-kneed wimps, unwilling to use force internationally and preoccupied with social welfare internally; local patriotisms prevailed everywhere.
The changes in asexual reproduction are more likely to be a “single point mutation” and get copied in every successive generation. Think Progress » Poll: Large Number Of Texans Doubt The Theory Of Evolution, Believe In Human-Dinosaur Coexistence
Hardly had we secreted ourselves when we spied a flotilla of a Roman expeditionary force sailing hard upstream.
Sandbars often are dominated by pure stands of black willow, while point bars are occupied by diverse forests of cottonwood, sugarberry, sycamore, green ash, and pecan. Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)
He was the prettiest baby we ever had, too, except -- except Edith, of course. An 'after Austin we didn't even bring up the subject again -- we was pretty well occupied wonderin' how we was goin 'to feed an' clothe 'em all, let alone havin 'pictures of' em. The Old Gray Homestead
This is Tobago's main fishing town and a great place to charter a pirogue to fish for mahimahi and marlin or to scuba dive at those boulders, known as The Sisters, you spied way out to sea on the trip into town.
The area is occupied by at least two Iberian wolf packs containing nine to 10 individuals and multiple lone wolves.
ATO had a seminar last year and they confirmed with me that I can't get gearing benefit from my owner-occupied property, even a larger portion of the property is for leasing than for owner occupation.
Our flat is one of the two occupied in the block.
Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
Most noticeable, and giving name to the type, was the change of the eagle to the outstretched wing, heraldic style copied from the Great Seal of the United States. Draped Bust Half Dime, Heraldic Eagle, 1800-1805 : Coin Guide
Techniques were copied from America - for example, by the French Baron Mackau, who plastered Paris with a reputed two million posters for an election in 1889.
The soldiers commandeered vehicles in the capital and occupied the television station.
While her thoughts were occupied with these melancholy reflections, a shadowy figure seemed to detach itself from the copsewood on her right hand. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
As usual, the centerfold of the magazine will be occupied with a large, full-color reproduction of an artwork suitable for display on a classroom wall.
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It's a promising thought, but to place this book in the rubric of self-help would be to mistake Kahneman-who lived for several years in Nazi-occupied France-for a benighted optimist. Slate Articles
The one-month programme recognises the fact that school children need to be gainfully occupied during summer holidays, he adds.
I wish I could tell you how much you mean to me,for you are all the cherished things a husband ought to be. Sometimes I get too busy or to preoccupied to try to say the little things I feel so tender and deep in my heart. On your special day I want to show you my gratitude and wish you a very happy birthday.
But the reason they go back is that they've become preoccupied with their thirst. Christianity Today
The audience becomes preoccupied with this sort of schoolboy brawl.
This sculptured limestone panel in the centre of a three-part canopied reredos was comparable in size to the Sandford reredos.
The nipped waistlines of men's tight pantaloons and the gauzy fabrics of women's empire dresses flattered youthful figures, and in fact, copied the kinds of clothing worn by young children.
All this business gloriously kept my attention occupied while my insides tried ever so arduously to deal with the trauma of it all. Sally Fay: Dealing With The Rough Ride Of Divorce
Kitty was totally preoccupied with the threatened invasion, and to tell her this would be asking for trouble.
They launched ‘Revuedeville’ - a nonstop round of showgirls, variety acts and comedians - and when other theatres copied them she hit on the idea of nudity.
It has copied, by the aid of the telescope, the trilingual arrow-headed inscriptions written 300 feet high upon the face of the rocks of Behistun; and though the alphabets and the languages in which these long inscriptions were "graven with a pen of iron and lead upon the rocks for ever," had been long dead and unknown, yet, by a kind of philological divination, Archæology has exorcised and resuscitated both; and from these dumb stones, and from the analogous inscriptions of Van, Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1
Three scrolls, eight parchments, and a book occupied the table when the dust settled.
The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.
In this study, we examine the suitability of dendrochronology to uncover climatic responses in tree rings at small scales in two species of pine on the Virginia Piedmont.
Leaving the hot desert behind, we waded and splashed in some of the pools fed by plumelike waterfalls, surrounded by flowers and ferns, and canopied at places by reeds. The Shepherd’s Song
No copied, damaged or defaced coupons accepted. The Sun
There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
In Brazil Elaps lemniscatus is copied by Oxyrhopus trigeminus, both having black rings disposed in threes. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
T. galatea itself occupied New Guinea proper, having diversified there into only three subspecies, despite the great heterogeneity of available habitats. The Song of The Dodo
I occupied a friend’s sofa and watched the Yankee game while seven or eight of my buddies pregamed.
Thereafter he was much occupied by the post of Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
In one case a bed, which fortunately was unoccupied, was scattered with broken glass.
Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Curtains separated the room into three, and one third was sectioned off and occupied.
The possible participation of Camilla Parker Bowles has occupied column inches in the diaries of The Times and the Daily Telegraph all week.
M. Ponsard, in his play on the subject, succumbed to the extent of making his final scene end with Galileo "frappant du pied la terre," and crying, "pourtant elle tourne. Watchers of the Sky
A geographer is occupied with tasks that are too serious to leave him any time for excursions outside his study. The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
When it was sown 35 days later than cassava, then cassava cultivar MCol 1468, which was tall and had a large canopy, dominated pigeonpea almost completely, whereas the smaller cultivar M 19 occupied up to only about half the total interrow area. 1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia.
The Vandals occupied North Africa, successfully assimilating late Roman art.
Mr Blair himself was taking a personal interest: the Prime Minister's closest aides were copied in to all the memos and documents winging around Whitehall.
The house was occupied as the London residence of an art dealer.
We toured the city and marvelled at the specialist shops that occupied specific streets; one street specialised in supplies for chapel selling vestments, candles and other religious accoutrements.
The image at lower left, is a wattlebird in full voice, declaring to others of its species and perhaps to other honeyeaters, ‘this site is occupied’.

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