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.

In the last analysis, though, Wilson had little cause to complain.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

Blue Throat, who had ruled the town with his six-shooter for the last six months, certainly had no intention of relinquishing his profitable dictatorship.

Till one day the last freight had been jumped, the last pint had been killed, the last beat had been rapped.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

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.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

I managed to do this by the time the great A.B. returned to the place where he last had seen the fierce nihilist.

Papa, I should emphasize, had been an invalid the last several years of his life ; ;

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

The canons, in a body, had tried to force him on his deathbed to let them give him the last rites of the Church, but he had died still proclaiming salvation by faith.

His last descendant, grandson Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985.

Poirot's first appearance was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles ( published 1920 ) and his last in Curtain ( published 1975, the year before Christie died ).

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

His last years were plagued by ill-health and the turbulence of his grandson Archagathus, at whose instigation he is said to have been poisoned ; according to others, he died a natural death.

Absalon died at Sorø Abbey on March 21, 1201, 73 years old, with his last will granting his personal holdings to the Abbey, apart from Fjenneslev which went to Esbern Snarre.

In 458 BC, he returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela where he died in 456 or 455 BC.

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.

When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.

The last words he uttered were, ‘ I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile .” Gregory VII must have felt he died in utter failure, and to many of his contemporaries it appeared Henry IV and Antipope Clement III had won.

The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.

When Casimir, the last Piast king of Poland, died in 1370, his nephew King Louis I of Hungary succeeded him to become king of Poland in personal union with Hungary.

Jones, the second to last surviving animation director from the " Termite Terrace " days of the WB cartoons, died of heart failure in 2002.

* Her fourth and last marriage was to Barry Comden ( born 1935 – died 2009 ), who was roughly a decade younger, from April 14, 1976 until 1981.

One of Thomas ' last poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas 1952.

While all of the Japanese soldiers on the nearby Islands fought and died to the last man, the Japanese soldiers on Lagos survived the war and eventually returned to Japan.

In 1887 he married Malvine Steinschneider, a union that would last over fifty years.

The school year 1886 – 1887 was the last year of his studies.

It resisted the effort of Samori Ture, leader of Wassoulou Empire, in 1887, to conquer it, and was one of the last kingdoms in the area to fall to the French in 1898.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

Oldenburg adopted it by 1849, Baden by 1870, and in 1887, the Kingdom of Bavaria was the last German state to adopt the Pickelhaube ( they, since the Napoleonic Wars had their own design of helmet called the Raupenhelm ).

** Kamato Hongo, the last verified living person born in 1887 ( d. 2003 )

Three major Volapük conventions were held, in 1884, 1887, and 1889 ; the last of them used Volapük as its working language.

The second account was written by Anna Klumpke, an American painter from Boston who made Bonheur ’ s acquaintance in 1887 while serving as a translator for an American collector of her work and who later became the older artist ’ s companion in the last year of her life.

His last work was his autobiography, Livserindringer ( published 1887 ).

With that, their mutual friendship and respect blossomed and, though Verdi's projection for an opera based on King Lear never came to anything, Boito provided subtle and resonant libretti for Verdi's last masterpieces, Otello ( 1887 ) and Falstaff ( 1893 ).

The last eight of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas were premièred at the Savoy: Iolanthe ( 1882 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ), The Mikado ( 1885 ), Ruddigore ( 1887 ), The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ) The Gondoliers ( 1889 ), Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ), and The Grand Duke ( 1896 ), and the term Savoy Opera has come to be associated with all their joint works.

The Keystone Coal Company opened three mines in Angus between 1878 and 1887 ; the last of these was worked out by 1887.

In 1851 the US government formed the first treaty with the Native American tribes, in 1885 the tribes engaged in the last known buffalo hunt in the region, and in 1887 a treaty was signed where the tribes surrendered 17. 5 million acres, which led from 1888 to the formation of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and the removal of the tribes from the Glasgow area.

* Furnaceville — A hamlet near the east county line on County Road 110, where one of the last major iron furnaces was located ( 1825 – 1887 ).

This was succeeded ( 1887, 1888 ) by a new edition of the Rhetoric, and along with it, a book On Teaching English, being an exhaustive application of the principles of rhetoric to the criticism of style, for the use of teachers ; and in 1894 he published a revised edition of The Senses and the Intellect, which contain his last word on psychology.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West toured Europe eight times, the first four tours were between 1887 and 1892, and the last four were from 1902 to 1906.

Despite a bequest from Mary Peabody Mann and efforts to turn the school into a technical training center, Sarah's funds were depleted by the time of her husband's death in 1887, and she spent the last four years of her life retired from public activity.

The five brothers died between 1887 and 1917 ( John Mohler was the last to die ).

The first volume of the History of Israel appeared in 1887 ; the third, in 1891 ; the last two posthumously.

In 1887, he also recorded the case of Miss K, in what was to be the last of his medical papers to be published.

* Ernst August III, Duke of Brunswick ( 1887 – 1953 ), eldest son of the last Crown Prince and son-in-law of German Emperor William II.

The success of his shop enabled Donaghey to marry Miss Wallace, a South Carolina native, in September 1887, a marriage that would last fifty years but which would not yield any children.

The last major issue of Victoria was the " Jubilee issue " of 1887, a set of twelve designs ranging from ½d.