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Her eyes opened as soon as she heard me, though, and once again, I felt an inward shiver.
Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.
As soon as the Committee of Public Safety heard of the victory Napoleon became a Brigadier General, the start of his meteoric rise to power.
As soon as he heard of the murder, the Pope ordered the legates to preach a crusade against the Cathars and wrote a letter to Phillip Augustus, King of France, appealing for his intervention — or an intervention led by his son, Louis.
Turkish intelligence took them to a border crossing into Georgia but soon afterwards shots were heard.
" As soon as I heard John Bonham play ", recalled Jones, " I knew this was going to be great ... We locked together as a team immediately ".
More specifically, Huxley had first heard of peyote use in ceremonies of the Native American Church in New Mexico soon after coming to the USA in 1937.
An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the first volume once and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do ; indeed I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it: as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it.
In he was secretly a disciple of Jesus: as soon as he heard the news of Jesus ' death, he " went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.
Unfortunately as soon as Anderson's boss Lew Grade heard Unwin's character speaking gobbledegook he cancelled the show on the grounds that people would not understand it-despite the fact that they were not meant to.
His act was soon heard on radio, making his debut in early December 1946 on the BBC's Variety Bandbox programme with a number of other ex-servicemen.
All too soon he heard her fury and the sound of her pursuit.
Imogen Holst introduced early choral music, and soon works by European composers rarely heard at that time in England were in the repertoire, such as Berg, Mahler, Schoenberg, Poulenc, Boulez, and Webern.
In 1883, commercial and residential lots were created and sold for $ 375 a piece ; and soon the sawing of lumber and clacking of hammers could be heard throughout the area.
Reporters heard soon after of the coincidental blackout of Concrete, and sent the story out over the international newswire and soon the town of Concrete was known ( if only for a moment ) worldwide.
Even though Bill was deemed as still too young to receive lessons, he soon began to play what he had heard during his brother's class.
Verities & Balderdash ( 1974, # 4 ), released soon after, was much more successful, bolstered by the chart-topping hit single " Cat's in the Cradle ", based upon a poem by his wife ; Sandra Chapin had written the poem inspired by her first husband's relationship with his father and a country song she heard on the radio.
In 1961 / 62 he built his own radio transmitter and briefly ran a private radio station playing ska and rhythm and blues which he soon shut down when he heard that the police were looking for the perpetrators.
On this contraption young Tony was able to reproduce hymns he heard in church ; news of this accomplishment soon spread around the neighborhood and he was offered use of neighbors ' pianos and reed organs to practice on.
The broadcasts of WOR reporter Gabriel Heatter from the Lindbergh kidnapping " trial of the century " in 1935, heard over Mutual, were highly regarded ; Heatter soon had his own regularly scheduled newscast, aired nationally five nights a week.
With perfect pitch and excellent recall he was soon able to pick out on the piano tunes that he had heard.
The Prussian guns, strict orders having been given to avoid all engagement that day, soon withdrew and were about to return to camp, when renewed artillery fire was heard from the south, and presently also from the north.

soon and news
It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.
As soon as the news broke in the morning of 1 September 1939 that Germany had invaded Poland, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini launched another desperate peace mediation plan intended to stop the German-Polish war from becoming a world war.
Margaret, it is said, died soon after receiving the news of their deaths from Edgar.
A press release, attached to the news, also warns that site will be suspended soon.
The afternoon edition of the Tribune hit the streets shortly after 3 p. m., and soon news of the potential lynching spread.
That news became exaggerated as it traveled north and soon thereafter, the Michigan territorial press dared the Ohio " million " to enter the Strip as they " welcomed them to hospitable graves.
In 2007, the liberal Mother Jones news magazine said that the Times had become " essential reading for political news junkies " soon after its founding, and quoted James Gavin, special assistant to Bo Hi Pak:
He decides that " the news must reach the others as soon as possible ".
Emperor Wenzong of Tang soon hears the news, and is so upset that he not only banishes the general, but attempts to ban all trade between Chinese and foreigners except for goods and livestock.
This news came from a dispatch sneaked out by Cornwallis on the 17 September, accompanied by a plea for help: " If you cannot relieve me very soon, you must be prepared to hear the worst.
Knox was indiscreet and news of his mission soon reached Mary of Guise.
" He possessed enormous capital within that company, and as the unknown form of television news loomed large, he would spend it freely, first in radio news, then in television, taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy first, then eventually William S. Paley himself, and with a foe that formidable, even the vast Murrow account would soon run dry.
However, Belisarius was too late to save the life of Hilderic, who had been slain at Gelimer's orders as soon as the news of the landing of the imperial army came.
Meanwhile, news of the advance of the Byzantine army soon reached Antioch.
The new so-called Convention Parliament assembled on 25 April 1660, and soon afterwards received news of the Declaration of Breda, in which Charles agreed, amongst other things, to pardon many of his father's enemies.
The only positive element of this affair for Thorpe was that, as soon as the news was reported that he had been declared a professional, he received offers from professional sports clubs.
" ( spoken by a thoroughly anti-Boanapartist Russian aristocrat, soon after the news reached Saint Petersburg ).
The national mood was soon depressed by news of successive reverses ; at Sedan on 2 September the French armies suffered an overwhelming defeat ; Napoleon was captured and deposed, and the Second Empire came to a sudden end.
The news of these rebellions soon reached a wider scope and it became clear that soon the whole of Piedmont was on the verge of revolt.
Jessie Bradman started the month-long journey to London as soon as she received the news.
The remaining survivors are expected to be prepared for such an event ( called the " Deliverance " by the Church ), and kill themselves as soon as they hear the news.

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