After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

After a moment of thought, her mind cleared and, in the interest of clarity, she typed into the record: `` Shot in the woods ''.

After two drinks containing alcohol, her arm flew upward very freely.

After every money argument, she rebuffed her husband's overtures until the matter was settled in her favor.

After another treatment with the machine, he told her that `` her entire body was shot through with tumors and cysts ''.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

After he'd got out fresh liver for Bast, he paused to look at her crouched daintily over her dish.

After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

After 18 years in the personnel office, she has taken a disability pension on advice of her doctors.

After signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had `` Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' as her first assignment after a year's wait.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

After a performance of the ballet ' Tsar Kandavl ' at the Mariinsky Theatre, I first caught sight of the Emperor.

After leaving office they were subject to a scrutiny ( euthunai, literally ' straightenings ') to review their performance.

After the financial collapse of the Italian opera company in 1777 due to financial mis-management, Joseph II decided to end the performance of Italian opera, French spoken drama, and ballet.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

After four years of solid macroeconomic performance, Cambodia's economy slowed dramatically in 1997-98 due to the regional economic crisis, civil violence, and political infighting.

After robust growth rates in the 1980s ( average annual growth was 6. 1 %), economic performance in the 1990s was mixed: real GDP growth was 9. 7 % in 1992, 1. 7 % in 1993, 6. 0 % in 1994, 6. 0 % in 1995, 1. 9 % in 1996 and 2. 3 % in 1997.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

Although that performance was canceled due to rioting, a live recording of the group ( After the Riot at Newport ) was released.

After completing building the database and making it operational arrives the database maintenance stage: Various database parameters may need changes and tuning for better performance, application's data structures may be changed or added, new related application programs may be written to add to the application's functionality, etc.

After he evacuated from the island, he arranged the original music into a form suitable for musical performance.

After New Harvests disappointing chart performance, Parton turned to high profile pop producer Gary Klein for her next album.

After the bridge learns the addresses associated with each port, it forwards network traffic only to the necessary segments, improving overall performance.

After years of censorship, Mexican newspapers took advantage of their newly-found freedom of the press to criticize Madero's performance as president harshly.

After a particularly dispiriting performance in Nacogdoches, Texas, Julius, Milton, and Arthur began cracking jokes onstage for their own amusement.

After Hungary's GDP declined about 18 % from 1990 to 1993 and grew only 1 %– 1. 5 % up to 1996, strong export performance has propelled GDP growth to 4. 4 % in 1997, with other macroeconomic indicators similarly improving.

" After the public's response to Bacall's debut performance in To Have and Have Not at the urging of director Howard Hawks production partner Charles K. Feldman, scenes were re-written to heighten the ' insolent ' quality that had intrigued critics and audiences in that film.

After Botham took the first wicket, Willis skittled Australia out for just 111, finishing with figures of 8 for 43 – rated by Wisden as the 7th best bowling performance of all time.

After receiving Golden Globe Awards and Academy Award nominations for Steel Magnolias ( 1989 ) and Pretty Woman, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

It boasted market leading performance, MIDI support and revolutionary peripherals including a light gun with recoil action and the Power Chair, a motorised seat designed to ape in the home what “ sit-in ” arcade games such as After Burner and Out Run delivered in the arcades using hydraulics.

After the 23 July show at the Days on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, Bonham and members of the band's support staff were arrested after a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff had been badly beaten during the band's performance.

After keyboards, drum pads are the next most significant MIDI performance controllers.

After parameter adjustment and learning, the performance of the resulting function should be measured on a test set that is separate from the training set.

After vomiting all over the stage in the live performance, he finally learns that he only has ' bunny pox '.

After a lengthy investigation conducted by the National Football League's security department, the league alleged on March 2, 2012 that 22 to 27 defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a " pay for performance " program that included " bounty " payments administered by then-defensive coordinator Gregg Williams during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons.

* 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.