And it was Jacksonville where the steam packet to Havana waited to load the mail.

On 4 June 1939, it was also refused permission to unload on orders of President Roosevelt as the ship waited in the Caribbean Sea between Florida and Cuba.

Again we waited for Montero.

Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

Sometimes ships waited for days for such a man, but Captain Heard was lucky.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.

Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.

Kate and Mrs. Tussle waited for letters anxiously.

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

As they waited for supper they sat by the fire, glasses in hand, while Byron philosophized as much for his own entertainment as hers.

I looked for Jessica to materialize out of the clogging, curdling crowd and, as the time passed and I waited, a fiend came to life beside me and whispered in my ear: How was I planning to greet Jessica??

badness, in the only sense in which it is involved at all, waited for its appearance till I came and looked and felt.

No believer in the traditional devotion of royal servitors, the plump Pulley broke the language barrier and lured her to Cairo where she waited for nine months, vainly hoping to see Farouk.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

We waited till he had finished laughing, and that gave us a few moments for taking stock of him.

Gun waited for Killpath to sit down behind the desk near the window.

`` He just lay back there and waited for it '', Meek said.

Gary Player, the small, trim South African, was the eventual winner, but in all his 25 years he never spent a more harrowing afternoon as he waited for the victory to drop in his lap.

Pausing, he waited for her to turn, to ask a question.

And he waited for her to say, `` Oh, no, I can do it, Sam.

A row of little hangers waited for a child's clothes in the neatly empty closet ; ;

Though interpretations vary, most theologians see this passage as referring to Jesus, after his death, going to a place ( neither heaven nor hell in the ultimate sense ) where the souls of pre-Christian people waited for the Gospel.

The tripartite military talks, started in mid-August, hit a sticking point regarding passage of Soviet troops through Poland if Germans attacked, and the parties waited as British and French officials overseas pressured Polish officials to agree to such terms.

Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders were among the 30, 000 troops who waited in Tampa for the order to ship out to Cuba during the summer of 1898, filling the town to bursting and delivering another huge boost to the local economy.

They met again in October that year at Pembroke as Henry waited to cross to Ireland.

Shortly after they met in 1354, Cola di Rienzo was assassinated, and Giannino waited two years to report his claims.

While in college, he met his future wife, Margaret Gibson, as he waited tables at a university Dinkytown coffee shop where they both worked.

The delegation waited another month while Isabella's father and brothers met at Aviz to discuss the matter.

The knight begins the story of his life, reporting that for his entire life he had served Love, but that he had waited to set his heart on a woman for many years until he met one lady who surpassed all others.

A convention of Jews met in Baltimore in October, and a delegation appointed by this convention waited on President James Buchanan in the same month to protest against the treaty and request its abrogation ; the president promised to take steps to accede to their request so far as lay in his power.

They met the warrant officer and several peace officers, and waited for Susannah Wells to appear.

They met again after Yuki returned to her own time, 2027, Toru having waited over thirty years for her.

For about two hours the two side faced each other across the clearing as Banks waited for more of his troops to arrive and Taylor arranged his men.

After John Taylor died in 1849, Taylor and Mill waited two years before marrying in 1851.

Wright did not show up at the airport as the squad flew out, and Taylor waited anxiously for word on his fitness.

Reaching the house ahead of them, he waited with his Winchester in his hands.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

I waited until the parking attendant was busy with a customer, then slipped around the back of the car with license number JYM 114, attached the electronic bug to the rear bumper and walked out.

I waited until my man was coming out of the office with the key to a cabin before I went in to register.

Mickey waited with slack arms.

For a while the young men waited outside the lodge of TuHulHulZote, glorying in his harsh language as he talked with himself.

The boy waited at the corner, with the jar of water held up to me in his hands, and the water had grown bubbly in the heat of the morning.

Cady handed her the letter, drank his coffee and waited with what he suddenly realized was belligerence.

When the abbot condescended to dine in the refectory, his chaplains waited upon him with the dishes, a servant, if necessary, assisting them.

He hid in a closet with a sword and waited until seeing a fiendish cat-like creature stalk around his niece's bedroom and bite her on the neck.

Mussolini was aware that Italy did not have the military capacity to carry out a long war with France or the United Kingdom and waited until France was on the verge of imminent collapse and surrender from German invasion before declaring war on France and the United Kingdom on 10 June 1940, on the assumption that the war would be short-lived following France's collapse.

In 207 BC he succeeded in making his way again into Apulia, where he waited to concert measures for a combined march upon Rome with his brother Hasdrubal Barca.

Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.

His master may have agreed with his leaving since he offered the odd amount of 1 cent for his return and waited a month to post the notice in the local newspaper.

However, the Montoneros waited until after the death of Perón in July 1974 to react, with the exception of the assassination of José Ignacio Rucci, general secretary of the CGT ( General Confederation of Labour ) on 25 September 1973, and some other military actions.

In November of that year, the Green March into Western Sahara began when 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

About 350, 000 unarmed Moroccans accompanied by the Moroccan Army armed with heavy weapons as SAM and others converged on the city of Tarfaya in southern Morocco and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

From there, he ravaged the interior and waited for Harold's return from the north, refusing to venture far from the sea, his line of communication with Normandy.

If so, all I can say is, it is a new Liberalism, and not the one that I have known and practised under more illustrious auspices than these, under one who was not merely the greatest Liberal but the greatest financier that this country has ever known — I mean Mr. Gladstone ... Gladstone ranks as the great financial authority of our country ... Mr. Gladstone would be 100 in December if he were alive, but, centenarian as he would be, I am inclined to think that he would make very short work of the deputation of the Cabinet that waited on him with this measure, and that they would soon find themselves on the stairs, if not in the street.

He waited until 1802 ( in Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars ; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens ) to announce the hypothesis that the two stars might be " binary sidereal systems " orbiting under mutual gravitational attraction, a hypothesis he confirmed in 1803 in his Account of the Changes that have happened, during the last Twenty-five Years, in the relative Situation of Double-stars ; with an Investigation of the Cause to which they are owing.