Sentences with phrase «in holes in the ground»

I always reflect on the life of this strong woman who was tough as nails, who for two years lived in a hole in the ground that could very well have been her grave.

«In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» Famously Tolkien was marking papers one summer and there was a blank one on which he wrote this line — the rest of the story came about as an effort to discover what hobbits were.

«So, on a blank sheet of exam paper he jotted down: «In the hole in the ground there lived a hobbit,»» says Atherton.

The first line of The Hobbit, for example, reads: «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.»

The Canary Islanders buried meat in a hole in the ground, and lighted a fire over it; and a similar practice is still sometimes found in the island of Sardinia, while among the Beduins, and in places in North and South America, the process comes even closer to that used in the South Seas.

We'll be out there in loincloths cooking in a hole in the ground and that doesn't sound good to me.

NO Plan Bad Management Wenger reminds me of an Ostrich he has his head in a hole in the ground.

The destruction of Erabor is a massive CGI set piece that reminds of LOTR, while the sequence in The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventure.

For some reason he wrote on it: «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.»

Given three films, each presumably close to three hours long, Jackson and co have plenty of time on their hands, and 20 minutes of the film has passed before the immortal «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit» is spoken.

Therefore, if you place a bomb and blow up a structure, you can see the detail in not only the remains of the building but in the hole in the ground, too.

By the time the final credits roll on this commentary, you'll want to bury The One in a hole in the ground.

The latter is found hooked up to some IVs in a hole in the ground after Clyde tells Nick and the police exactly where to look in exchange for his steak.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit... J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle - Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years ago.

Those 1980s VHS tapes with Tim Conway where he plays a dwarf golf instructor by standing in a hole in the ground, with -LSB-...]

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground.

And remember, also, that Syrians live in holes in the ground, so pushing into a tight crevice announces «home, sweet home» to your little friends.

Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.

(He was, notoriously, arrested for inciting desertion and imprisoned in a hole in the ground.)

He once said that mysteries lie in a hole in the ground or under a rock, and this is where we find his characters.

He once said that mysteries lie in a hole in the ground or under a rock, and this is...

To think that knowledge itself is shaped like books is to marvel that a rock fits so well in its hole in the ground.

How much RDX could the North Koreans have put in a hole in the ground?

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit -LSB-...] it was a hobbit - hole, and that means comfort.

Not exact matches

If we assume those permits turn into holes in the ground, Canada is putting up apartment complexes at the fastest rate since the early 1970s.

These leaders, some of them scarcely out of their 30s, are building explosive, mould - breaking brands capable of extracting vast wealth from social networks instead of holes in the ground.

Around the bend I encountered a large gaping hole in the ground with a little sign next to it that said THE MARKET: PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

If everything doesn't happen in sequence, you get a smoking hole in the ground.»

Why boil tar and drill five miles in deep water if we just poked a hole in the ground for so many decades?

So the first thing they did was say — get rid of your manufacturing, get rid of your engineering, begin charging for your schooling, close down the schools — you don't need engineers all you really need to do is make a hole in the ground.

They carry too much overhead to poke holes in the ground, here and there, to squeeze out a few hundred or thousand barrels of oil each day.

Though the developer would have been able to sue, «he still would have a hole in the ground that he was paying taxes and insurance and contractor fees on.»

50 percent of start - ups don't make it to their four - year mark and if your business happens to be one of the unlucky ones, you may be more inclined to wish for a hole to open up in the ground that you can crawl into than you would be to grab a shovel and start digging a new hole.

He and his sons will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the drones and Obama, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

My opinion is evangelicals don't know a hole in the ground from a hole in their heads.

This bi.tch doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground!

Well, a hole in the ground is not a better place, sorry.

They not only have no clue as to how our government works or what it takes to change laws, they wouldn't know a good president from a hole in the ground if they didn't first ask their pastor or fox news pundit their opinion.

You couldn't recognize actual science from a hole in the ground, clearly.

I've said it myself, or at least something very like it, at gravesides as I've watched caskets descend into holes as seemingly bottomless as the central shafts into which the water descends in the reflecting pools at Ground Zero.

It is a hole in the ground.

I'm also not grinding my teeth and punching holes in the wall.

A fantastic, humbling, awesome, beautiful, breath taking hole in the ground made from millions of years of erosion from water, but a hole in the ground nonetheless.

All I needed was for this drinking, smoking, probably dancing and card - playing man on another continent to tell me the truth, to point me to a broad, bustling Church that took serious questions seriously and could be traced all the way back to an empty hole in the ground in the Middle East.

Not feeding hungry or pay charity as should or storing money abroad in banks or holes under ground rather than investing it to generate business and good living for the nation nor even the slightest right of freedom!

We children destined to be writers took that word literally before we knew a logos from a hole in the ground.

Clearly, anyone who has study history and understands current societies around the world (right here in USA, also); if you do not understand — you must be living in a small hole in the ground.

You aren't likely a good candidate for enlightenment if you can't tell the difference between your azz and a hole in the ground.

It is not a mystical place, but is simply the hole in the ground where your body goes when you die.

On his first day on the job he comes back from the men's room saying he can't find any hole in the ground.