Her hair was frizzled into a tangled chaparral, forward of her ears; aft it was drawn together and compactly bound and plaited into a stump like a pony's tail, and furthermore was canted upward at a sharp angle, and ingeniously supported by a red velvet crupper, whose forward extremity was made fast with a half-hitch around a hairpin on the top of her head.
The input and collaboration of different research traditions is key, if progress is to be made in understanding life on earth in all its variety - and progress has to be made fast, with ecosystems under threat from causes too many and all too familiar.
Mohammed, who was similarly low on cash, had made fast friends with the Syrian and Iraqi men he met on the way to the capital.
In her new-found independence, typical of a 5-year-old's, she has made fast friends with a much more grown up big kid of 6 next door.
I was the new girl, and I made fast friends with Christy, an on-my-way-to-my-real-friends girl, a girl I would soon dump because I'd meet people I liked more.
Graphene is not good at controlling or switching electric current, so making faster computers with it remains tricky.
To get such things, Anglo American sorely needs a boss to whom politicians listen.Smoother relations will also probably depend on Anglo American making faster progress with "black economic empowerment".
Then upon the mast was the raiment of the sea, the sail, with rope made fast.
We also found differences in capture attempt time among targets, with participants making faster responses to the white targets and slower responses to the other targets, in comparison to the striped targets.
They make fast friends with their colleagues and are extremely friendly with managers.
