When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

I have just seen Debonnie and Prompt Time work a mile in 2:34, last quarter in :35.3.

Require each employee to work his last shift both before and after the holiday to be eligible for pay.

This last was probably not in Brumidi's palette, but was needed to take the chill, bluish look off the new work next to the old, where softening effects of time were seen, even after thorough cleaning.

Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.

National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.

Snow or no, the fans were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance of the Ponchielli work.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

However, details of these beliefs can be found in almost everything he wrote, from his early Summa de bono to his last work, the Summa theologiae.

A large collection of Maillol's work is maintained at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which was established by Dina Vierny, Maillol's model and platonic companion during the last 10 years of his life.

According to John T. Townsend, " it is not before the last decades of the second century that one finds undisputed traces of the work.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

EPD and PPD work with AAL5 connections as they use the end of packet marker: the ATM User-to-ATM User ( AUU ) Indication bit in the Payload Type field of the header, which is set in the last cell of a SAR-SDU.

135, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in October 1826 and was the last substantial work he finished.

After finishing the trios, in the fall of 1808, he began sketching the Choral Fantasy, the work considered to be the " first draft " of the last movement of the Symphony No. 9.

His last surviving work is a letter to Ecgbert of York, a former student, written in 734.

In the Masoretic Text, it appears as a single work, either the first or last book of the Ketuvim ( the latter arrangement also making it the final book of the Jewish Bible ).

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

Cut pieces of celery last only a few hours before they turn brown, and few American restaurants include it in green salads because it cannot be prepared far enough ahead of time.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

Christianity at last found recognition by the State ; and this brought new problems — apologies of a different sort had to be prepared.

It is the heaviest element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter elements, and hence the last element that can be prepared in macroscopic quantities, although pure fermium metal has not yet been prepared.

Though Ribbentrop continued to argue that Britain and France were bluffing, both he and Hitler were prepared as a last resort to risk a general war by invading Poland.

** a third test prepared by each examining board based on the programmes of all the subjects of the last year of study

In his last years, Bowdler prepared an expurgated version of the works of the historian Edward Gibbon, which was published posthumously in 1826.

By the end of 1970 there were more than 200 Sheridans in Vietnam, and they stayed in the field until the last US Armored Cavalry unit, the 1st Squadron, 1st Armored Cavalry prepared for re-deployment back to the United States on 10 April 1972.

To allow the revival of the earlier work to be prepared at the Savoy, the last two performances of Ruddigore were given at the Crystal Palace, on 8 and 9 November.

Even though he had spent the last decades of his life securing Maria Theresa's inheritance, Charles always expected a son and never prepared his daughter for her future role as sovereign.

Almost to the last minute, he was prepared to withdraw.

In his last opera, the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz prepared a libretto based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

François Mitterrand's last meal included this specially prepared bird which was illegal to prepare and eat at that time.

In the last phase, Soviet troops prepared and executed their withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist ( Ein Hungerkünstler ), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka's death.

As 1891 came to a close, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass, writing to a friend upon its completion, " L. of G. at last complete — after 33 y ' rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old ".

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians says of Monteux that he " was never an ostentatious conductor ... prepared his orchestra in often arduous rehearsals and then small but decisive gestures to obtain playing of fine texture, careful detail and powerful rhythmic energy, retaining to the last his extraordinary grasp of musical structure and a faultless ear for sound quality.

Ash nearly became bankrupt as they prepared to release possibly their last album.

The elder Bourbon branch ( as represented by Louis XVIII and later by its last scion, Henri, Comte de Chambord ) was prepared to grant ( octroyer ) a charter of liberties or constitution, but insisted that they ruled by " divine right " and conferred these liberties on their subjects of their own free will.

As the tide turns against the Dominion, cut off from the Gamma Quadrant and without technological advantage, a last stand is prepared.