They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.

The doctor stood about, waiting for Alex to dress, with a show of impatience, and soon they were moving, as quietly as could be, through the still-dark hallways, past the bedroom of the patronne, and so into the street.

But there are indications that many developing nations will welcome Peace Corps volunteers, and that if the volunteers are well chosen, they will soon demonstrate their value and make many friends.

Because they are `` minority '' exercises and have but a limited appeal they soon find themselves in the limbo of the forgotten.

As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.

In deadly earnest, the besiegers methodically stripped away portions of the roof and tossed lighted rags inside, only to have most stamped out by the women as soon as they hit the floor.

Initially, the flagellated protozoa predominated, but they soon gave way to the free swimming ciliated protozoa.

But they brought back few pelts to pay their debts, and soon French trade in the region was at an end.

As soon as you find out if they are Geely and Harris, come on around to the lounge where I'll be waiting ''.

When, therefore, it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

My head began to ache, and the fumes of the tractor began to bother my eyes, and I hated the job suddenly, and I thought, there are only moments when one sees beautiful things, and these are soon crushed, or they vanish.

Johnston started his army in motion on April 3, 1862, intent on surprising Grant's force as soon as the next day, but they moved slowly due to their inexperience, bad roads and lack of adequate staff planning.

The natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for as soon as they are born they owe by birthright allegiance and obedience to the Sovereign ( Ex p. Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 E & E 487 ).

In 1932, soon after the prediction of positrons by Paul Dirac, Carl D. Anderson found that cosmic-ray collisions produced these particles in a cloud chamber — a particle detector in which moving electrons ( or positrons ) leave behind trails as they move through the gas.

As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.

Cuneiform sources suggest that the Gutians ' administration showed little concern for maintaining agriculture, written records, or public safety ; they reputedly released all farm animals to roam about Mesopotamia freely, and soon brought about famine and rocketing grain prices.

In the autumn of the year, he also met with Duke Frederick II of Austria and they agreed to stop the skirmishes on the border, but the Duke soon broke the agreement.

But as soon as they leave the shade, and by the presence of the real objects, which actuate our passions and sentiments, are put in opposition to the more powerful principles of our nature, they vanish like smoke, and leave the most determined skeptic in the same condition as other mortals.

Mr. A., her fellow townsman, also experienced a nervous breakdown just as soon as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife -- a woman suffering from an incurable disease, multiple sclerosis -- and himself.

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim enjoyed his office for only a single day, for Abd ar-Rahman soon discovered his collusion with the rebel governor of Carmona.

With a short lift in the mist, Cadogan soon discovered the smartly ordered lines of Villeroi ’ s advance guard some four miles ( 6 km ) off ; a galloper hastened back to warn Marlborough.

In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a " spiral nebula " ( spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies ), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth.

The public soon discovered that speedy vehicles that could zoom over snow were a lot of fun.

Alessandri soon discovered that his efforts to lead would be blocked by the conservative Congress.

But in the early 1930s it was soon discovered that, while Portland cement had a faster setting time it was not as durable, especially for highways, to the point that some states stopped building highways and roads with cement.

The former text established an Italian protectorate over Ethiopia, which Menelik discovered soon afterwards.

Hastings was now a small fishing settlement, but it was soon discovered that the new taxes on luxury goods could be made profitable by smuggling, and the town was ideally located for that.

Later in June 1791, the royal family secretly fled Paris in disguise for Varennes near France's northeastern border in order to seek royalist support the king believed he could trust, but they were soon discovered en route.

Goebbels also discovered a talent for oratory, and was soon second in the Nazi movement only to Hitler as a public speaker.

As soon as he arrived he discovered that India was more deeply divided than he had imagined.

Julian soon discovered that wealthy merchants were causing food problems, apparently by hoarding food and selling it at high prices.

In 1972 a team of zoologists from Yorkshire's Flamingo Park Zoo had gone out in search of the legendary monster and soon discovered a large body floating in the water.

Adler soon returned to school to take writing classes at night where he discovered the works of men he would come to call heroes: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John Stuart Mill and others.

Moses soon discovered that the affair was known, and that Pharaoh was likely to put him to death for it ; he then fled from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula.

* 1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion ( he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made ).

MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 was underway, but it was soon discovered that MPEG-2, at high data rates, would accommodate HDTV.

He is the third, and possibly most important, pillar of that field ( he soon was the only one to have discovered a relativistic generalization of the theory ).

In 1962 Neil Bartlett discovered the first chemical compound of a noble gas, xenon hexafluoroplatinate .< ref name =" bartlett "> Compounds of other noble gases were discovered soon after: in 1962 for radon, radon difluoride, and in 1963 for krypton, krypton difluoride ().

All of the compounds in this class were discovered and synthesized during or soon after World War II, led by Dr. Gerhard Schrader ( later under the employment of IG Farben ).

The band soon discovered that musicians were exploring similar paths in other parts of the world.

During the early months of World War I, it was soon discovered that the Pickelhaube did not measure up to the demanding conditions of trench warfare.

It was soon discovered that Incense cedar, when dyed and perfumed to resemble Red Cedar, was a suitable alternative and most pencils today are made from this timber which is grown in managed forests.