Their insignia together with a few peacock feathers are sometimes kept in small detached buildings called kovil with representations of the godlings rudely drawn on the walls.
Nothing remains of these Addresses, nor of two detached Lectures on the Slave Trade and the Hair Powder Tax, which were delivered in the interval between the two principal courses.
Stephen detached a strong body of horse and foot to dispute the passage of a ford of the Trent.
Mahmud, being informed of his retreat, detached part of his army to pursue him.
With his concurrence I have detachedthe fleet brigade, and the men belonging to it have returned to their vessels.
On the 12th of November the railroad and telegraph communications with the rear were broken, and the army stood detached from all friends, dependent on its own resources and supplies.
It is most difficult to understand what the rebels intend to do; so far but few troops have been detached from Lee's army.
The corps is the true unit for grand campaigns and battle, should have a full and perfect staff, and every thing requisite for separate action, ready at all times to be detached and sent off for any nature of service.
They can be so organized and officered as to be efficient, for they are nearly all old soldiers who have been detached or on furlough.
For flank-guards and rear-guards, one or more companies should be detached under their own officers, instead of making up the guard by detailing men from the several companies.
The moving point became detachedfrom the road, and entered into the fields.
The extremities of the avenues were imperceptibly detached from the copse, by a lighter shadow of opaque gray, which, upon closer examination, became visible in the midst of the obscurity.
Miss Quinton, you just heard me order my adjutant, Colonel O'Leary, on detached duty to Krink.
With his left hand, von Schlichten detached the bayonet from the rifle of one of his followers and went forward, trying not to think of the absurdity of a man of the Sixth Century A.
In the churches turn thy face toward the Kingdom of ABHA and supplicate the help of the Holy Spirit, and, with a detached heart, begin to talk.
The earthly abode is not worth the attachment of the heart, for this structure will surely be destroyed, but that which is of worth to freed ones (detached from all save God) is the heavenly palace and the court of Divine Majesty.
The reference here symbolizes the severed and detached believers who are diffusing the fragrance of the Word of God.
When thou art attached to His love, then thou art detached from every kith and kin.
And know thou, verily, that those who were following the steps of Christ, detached their souls from the desires of the world, and made their hearts to depend on the bounties of heaven.
Most of it had no meaning for him, but at intervals some fragment detached itself from the mass, and stood out beautiful.
And at the same instant a flake of grimy plaster detached itself from the opposite wall and dropped into pale dust on the floor.
The land fronting the main road was destined not for cottages, but for residences, semi-detached or detached.
Men like Dickson McCunn, for example, who live all their life in a semi-detached villa and die worth half a million.
That which has graced the slim throats of princesses in far-away Courts now adorns an elderly matron in a semi-detached villa; the jewels of the wild Nausicaa have fallen to the housewife Penelope.
Adjoining to the church, on the south side, is a detached chapel of transition Norman work, with an apse vaulted with good ribs and vaulting shafts.
The Land of this point is Tolerable high, and may be known by a round Hillock or rock that appears to be detached from the point, but I believe it joins to it.
It did not appear to be one continued Shoal, but several laying detached from each other.
It stretches for thirty-three miles from its northern extremity at the point of Ayre to the bold detached cliffs of the little islet at the southern end known as the Calf of Man.
The chapel has a massive detached bell-tower, and in its windows are some fine stained glass, while the silver staff of William of Wykeham is still preserved there.
It has a detached campanile or bell-tower rising on the north-western side, the only example in England of such an attachment to a cathedral.
They have rendered most excellent service under that name; and there is nothing to prevent them from retaining it, especially while they are on detached service.
The cavalry had plenty of exciting experience; and the hero, in command of his platoon on detached service, proved himself to be not only a brave officer, but a skilful strategist.
But Count Roumovski's next words arrested him a moment; his tone was no longer one of suave, detached calmness, but sharp and decisive, and his bearing was instinct with strength and determination.
The Brigade, however, instead of going to Kroonstad, marched by way of Ventersburg and Lindley to Heilbron, while the detachedcompanies marched by the railway to Roodeval.
Near here a British detached party encountering the enemy, who seemed to be in force, had a very rough time.
They became detached from the main body, were caught in a defile, and 120 of them were taken prisoners.
After the breaking up of the Division, Colonel Le Gallais was given a detached mounted infantry command, and his force has since been operating with the many flying columns on the heels of De Wet, with the final result reported on Friday.
It consists of a string of detached scenes with but little mutual connection, which, without some previous knowledge of the story, would be barely comprehensible.
It is never a bit of detached brilliancy; it is always, like Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, the summing up and expression of a vast and deep movement of the human spirit.
She was prim in the lamp-light, and extraordinarily detached from the little uncomfortable room, with its pale old photographs of forgotten actors staring down from wall and mantel.
The iron links shook in his hands, and he detached the stout crosspiece and laid it across his knees.
On the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence detached bowlder stones appear, some of enormous size, many tons in weight; they must have come from a great distance, for nowhere in that region is there any rock of similar material.
They did not face the English in the field, but hovered round the border, and, with sudden surprise, overwhelmed detached posts and settlements in a horrible destruction.
The top of a near-by rock detached itself, drew up into a hunched thing of armor-plated scales and heavy wide-jawed head.
The Terran fought, soundlessly but fiercely, on a battleground which was within him, knowing in a detached way that his body obeyed another's commands.
For the first time he had come to the deeper reality of life--through the flowing of the agonised longing within himself toward that permanent universal consciousness of which all human longings are but detached and wandering forms.
Between her lover and the prima donna she knew that for this one instant at least, she was strong enough to stand absolutely detached and incapable of judgment.
Thus all the preceding experiment from the stroke of the bow to the final noise presents itself to us in visual terms, and further, these terms are not confined to a series of detached sensations.
The qualities of sensation detached from matter will, when applied to mind, change its physiognomy.
This is noticeable in the building of small, detached houses at a distance from the main villages, the greater convenience to crops, flocks and water outweighing the defensive motive.
They still identify these with ruins on the detached mesas in the valley to the south and along the Moen-kopi (“place of flowing water”) and other intermittent streams in the west.
Vestiges of masonry indicating detached rooms were seen in each of the courts of the main rectangle.
Large, upright slabs of stone have been used by the pueblo builders in many ways, sometimes incorporated into the architecture of the houses, and again in detached positions at some distance from the villages.
There are also two detached single rooms in the village--one of them built for a kiva, though apparently not in use at the time of our survey, and the other a small room with its principal door facing an adjoining row.
The tendency to build small detached houses noticed at Nutria and at Ojo Caliente has not manifested itself here.
One of these, situated in the court, is detached and appears to have been partly underground.
The latter are wholly detached from the houses, as may be seen from the ground plans.
The metates are arranged in the usual manner, three in a row, but there is an additional detached section placed at right angles to the main series.
The entrance doorway of the detached Zuñi house illustrated in Pl.
CVI illustrates a similar treatment of an opening in a detached house of Nutria, whose occupants had returned to the home pueblo of Zuñi at the close of the harvesting season.
The taller one, called Brad by his companion, deliberately detached one of the lamps from the car.
So they walked along indetached groups, many eyes were on the alert, and listening ears bent to catch some sign of a lurking foe.
Jack, realizing the need of more light, instantly flew over to where the car was standing, and detached the second lamp.
