According to one text, their feet resembled horses' hooves, and they sounded like birds.
One text from "As You Like It" has tempted hundreds of different composers.
In a school with 406 children, that means that almost 13 children have to share one text book.
In one text message, however, Rahman said he was heading to Friday prayers.
Nine percent respond to at least one text every time they drive, while 13 percent of them read a text or email while driving.
Users are more likely to calm down and actually share their concern when they can navigate easily and type their input into just one text box.
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"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.
There are no exact figures on how many of the 8.7 million deaf or hard of hearing people in the UK use mobiles and text messaging, but their increasing adoption of this technology is certainly contributing to the more than one billion text messages a month now being sent in Britain.
It might have been some young people studying, about to go into the monastery, and I think from the text one could definitely get that sense, because so much of the text deals with the things that they are about to give up - you know, lust and drinking and all the really incredibly good things in life that they're about to give up.
One method is to feed the zipper some text in one language, then switch the input to a different language.
Here I am, at my computer, typing letters one by one into a plain text document, rolling along through one of the strangest posts I've ever penned for this site.
BlackBerry Messenger, iMessenger and Gchat are all slowly taking texting's place, but we still text one another.
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When he selected one, the text would instantly appear on the book's pages.
But it scans only one line of text at a time, which makes for a tedious process even after you get the hang of it.
One sub-text here is the UN Oil for Food scandal.
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For publishers there are editorial tools that editors can use, such as one to add text labels to a particular item in a photo, which will pop up when consumers roll over it.
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Even a decade or so ago, most phones had dull gray screens, clamshell designs or tiny keypads that made you hit a button over and over to text one letter of the alphabet.
Back in 1998, I remember marveling at high school students choosing to text one another rather than make phone calls, updating their friends with their "status" and even taking pictures with their mobile phones.
Finally, new in the latest software release is the option to condense the keyboard on either the right or left-hand side of the screen for one-handed text input -- a feature that's been extended to the phone dialer as well.
Compared to text, one pays a great penalty to absorb information by way of video.
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Apparently no one imagined that the text might be wielded by crafty American firms in Canada.
Speaking of apps, T3 highlightts a new one that instantly translates text using augmented reality.
"Over time, as people tend to click one version of ad text over others, the weights change, " Prof Sweeney explained.
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One explanation is that text-messaging revenue of Telefonica crashed during the quarter.
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Three complainants, two of whom received the first text and one who received the second, challenged whether they were misleading and could be substantiated.
Google said last week that its Google Translate service -- which changes text from one language to another -- handles as much translation work in a day as human translators could manage in a year.
Then there is digital technology: instead of arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologising for being late (with nearly 25 billion messages sent in 2005, Germany is one of Europe's text-messaging champions).
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Many firms such as BASF in Germany are offering to match their staffs' donations, while some European mobile phone companies say they will give up to one euro for every text message sent to a crisis hotline.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is in its second year of running one of the largest text and chat outreach operations for people ages 15 to 24, targeting African-American and Latino youth through promotional campaigns on MTV, websites and mobile providers, social media, wallet cards, video and Seventeen magazine.
But text is just one small piece of how our world has been changed by technology.
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