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- When you're through with the blues you've got nothing to rest on."
- A lander is a spacecraft that descends towards, comes to rest on, the surface of an astronomical body.
- The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and "divided tongues like fire" coming to rest on the apostles.
- A row of double chevrons diverts weight away from the entrance. Several of these chevron blocks are now missing, as the slanted faces they used to rest on indicate.
- They also suggest that the "points of social control" that moral panics used to rest on "have undergone some degree of shift, if not transformation".
- On 22 June, the pair decided to rest on a stable ice floe while they repaired their equipment and gathered strength for the next stage of their journey.
- Not content to rest on his laurels, Sabine conducted further pendulum experiments throughout the 1820s, determining the relative lengths of the second's pendulum in Paris, London, Greenwich, and Altona.
- isoceles" come to rest on vegetation from time to time.
- It is possible that a spire was originally intended to rest on the first phase of the tower.
- Kneeling or squatting was a more common position for childbirth in antiquity, and the newborn probably came to rest on the ground before the umbilical cord was cut.
- In the Priestly Code of Exodus, instead of the Molten Sea is described a bronze "laver" (basin), which was to rest on a bronze "foot" (presumably meaning "a stand").
- The tradition linking Gregory I to the development of the chant seems to rest on a possibly mistaken identification of a certain "Gregorius", probably Pope Gregory II, with his more famous predecessor.
- These seals go to rest on the coasts. When looking for food, they dive up to 40 meters deep and prey on fish and octopus.
- Anheuser-Busch refers to this process as a secondary fermentation, with the idea being that the chips give the yeast more surface area to rest on.
- She stopped to rest on a sandy beach by the village of Warszowa, where fishermen came to admire her beauty and listen to her beautiful voice.
- In contrast to this, it is known that most Christians and churches in history have chosen to rest on Sunday instead of Saturday.
- Where a dome needed to rest on a square or rectangular base, the dome was raised above the level of the supporting pillars, with three-dimensional spandrels called pendentives taking the weight of the dome and concentrating it onto the pillars.
- He was laid to rest on 8 February 1769 in the Vatican but his remains were transferred on 27 September 1774 to a monument in the Vatican that had been sculpted by Antonio Canova at the request of Senator Abbondio Rezzonico, the nephew of the late pontiff.
- Research into the practice and meaning of sonata form, style, and structure has been the motivation for important theoretical works by Heinrich Schenker, Arnold Schoenberg, and Charles Rosen among others; and the pedagogy of music continued to rest on an understanding and application of the rules of sonata form as almost two centuries of development in practice and theory had codified it.
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