It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

He tried to ask the Lady Da how long they had had the drug, and how much longer they would have to wait before they had it again.

Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but Beowulf tells his men that he will fight the dragon alone and that they should wait on the barrow.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

Teach's crew had apparently informed Bostock that they had destroyed several other vessels, and that they intended to sail to Hispaniola and lie in wait for an expected Spanish armada, supposedly laden with money to pay the garrisons.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The peoples of the world built kaers, underground towns and cities, which they sealed with the Theran wards to wait out the time of the Horrors, which was called the Scourge.

As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.

However, males must wait until they are at least seven years old to gain the opportunity to mate.

In 1994, Galileo was perfectly positioned to watch the fragments of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crash into Jupiter, whereas terrestrial telescopes had to wait to see the impact sites as they rotated into view.

The manager explains to Marlow that they couldn't wait, and needed to take the steamboat up-river because of " rumours that a very important station was in jeopardy, and its chief, Mr. Kurtz, was ill ." Marlow describes that the manager " inspired uneasiness "-" just uneasiness — nothing more "-Along with the manager, Marlow describes the other Company men at this station as lazy back-biting " pilgrims "-fraught with envy and jealousy.

Complaints by preachers suggest that they often did not wait, but at least until the early 1600s the common attitude to this kind of anticipatory behaviour seems to have been lenient.

Spotted hyenas evolved sharp carnassials behind their crushing premolars, therefore they did not need to wait for their prey to die, as is the case for brown and striped hyenas, and thus became pack hunters as well as scavengers.

In recent years, additional attractions have been added to entertain the crowds as they wait for midnight, such as fire poi, a pipe band, street drumming and a firework display after the last fireball is cast into the sea.

Clients should process the individual parts as soon as they arrive and should not wait for the whole message to finish.

So soon as they have glided through The estampies of this sort Youths and maidens who disport Themselves in dancing now begin With scarce a wait to join hands in The choral ".

As they wait, Mei eventually falls asleep on Satsuki's back and Totoro appears beside them, allowing Satsuki to see him for the first time.

The biblical narrative relates that the Israelites left Egypt in such haste they could not wait for their bread dough to rise ; the bread, when baked, was matzah.

Fertile cervical mucus is important in creating an environment that allows sperm to pass through the cervix and into the fallopian tubes where they wait for ovulation.

Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel.

When the Pharaoh freed the Israelites, it is said that they left in such a hurry that they could not wait for bread dough to rise ( leaven ).

When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others convened at the Seneca Falls Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in July 1848, they drafted and signed a document titled the Declaration of Sentiments.

They operated a boarding school at Raritan Bay Union, a utopian community based on her teachings and, the teachings of Charles Fourier, where they taught the children of other noted abolitionists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary E. Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy ; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list.

Her writings gave suffrage workers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott several arguments and ideas that they would need to help end slavery and begin the women ’ s suffrage movement.

Due chiefly to Stanton's ill health, the family moved to Seneca Falls, New York in 1847, where they resided in a house purchased for them by Daniel Cady.

Feminist pro-life groups say they are continuing the tradition of 19th century women's rights activists such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Victoria Woodhull, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Alice Paul who considered abortion to be an evil forced upon women by men.

There, they often hosted evening receptions on Sundays, some of which were attended by well-known figures such as P. T. Barnum, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

" Entertainment Weekly stated, " Soulmates Tad ( Michael E. Knight ) and Dixie ( Cady McClain ) set the soap world on fire with their straightforward, often hilarious interactions as they fought ex-husbands, ex-wives, and countless others to be with each other.

Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained together until his death.

In the Poetic Edda, a disguised Odin expresses that he fears that they may not return from their daily flights.

His powerful protectors discreetly assisted him in his flight, and they helped to get his banned books ( published in Holland by Marc-Michel Rey ) distributed in France disguised as other works, using false covers and title pages.

The way in which the Chinese land mine trigger worked was a system of two steel wheels rotated by a falling weight, the chord of which was wound around their axle, and when the enemy stepped onto the disguised boards they released the pins that dropped the weights.

The definition also covers activities which would fall within the traditional definition of money laundering as a process by which proceeds of crime are concealed or disguised so that they may be made to appear to be of legitimate origin.

Many children are promised that they are going to attend school, which are actually military training facilities disguised as school.

O ' Neil and the resistance youths disguised as slave-workers, by suddenly overpowering and killing their overseers and retracting the metal god-masks they wore, convince the locals that their " gods " are mere mortals and, with their help, O ' Neil, Jackson, and the remaining members of the team make it back to the Stargate hoping to deactivate the bomb.

These locations are often equipped with state-of-the-art, highly-advanced or alien technologies, and they are usually disguised and / or in secret locations to avoid being detected by enemies, or by the general public.

These were extensively used by amateur artists while on their travels, but they were also employed by professionals, including Paul Sandby, Canaletto and Joshua Reynolds, whose camera ( disguised as a book ) is now in the Science Museum ( London ).

Two explanations are given for them being sent to a concentration camp: first, that they had managed to make contact with the French Resistance, some were disguised as civilians, and they were carrying false papers when caught ; they were therefore categorized by the Germans as spies, which meant their rights under the Geneva Convention were not respected.

Freud's view was that dreams are compromises which ensure that sleep is not interrupted: as " a disguised fulfilment of repressed wishes ," they succeed in representing wishes as fulfilled which might otherwise disturb and waken the dreamer.

The ornate walls and ceilings of the receiving room disguised small viewing windows high on the walls where the owners of the home could view their guests from the upper floor and get a ' sneak peek ' before greeting them, in case they needed to adjust their attire accordingly.

After setting Arabella ashore, they approach the harbor disguised under French colors and save the colony in a pitched battle.

Once they are gone, Gremio and Tranio ( disguised as Lucentio ) formally bid for Bianca, with Tranio easily outbidding Gremio.

In The Glove of Darth Vader, C-3PO and R2-D2 are members of the Senate Planetary Intelligence Network ( SPIN ), and undergo transformation by the Droid Modification Team to be disguised as Kessel droids so that they could infiltrate a gathering of Imperials to find out who is planning to take control of the Empire.

Hyginus ( who states that the dog and javelin are gifts from the goddess Artemis ) and Antoninus, however, write that she disguised herself as a boy and seduced her husband, so that he too was guilty, and they were reconciled.

However, they are usually disguised so as to make the process of finding the solutions difficult.

* The film 3000 Miles to Graceland is about a group of criminals who plan to rob a casino during an international Elvis week, and to make it easier, they are all disguised as Elvis impersonators.

He took a band of men, including his brother, to Ceredigion, where they disguised themselves as bards to gain audience with King Pryderi.

To trick her into naming him, Gwydion disguised himself and the boy as shoemakers and as they were making shoes for her, the boy threw a stone at a bird and killed it.

She pursued Díthorba's sons alone, disguised as a leper, and overcame each of them in turn when they tried to have sex with her, tied them up, and carried the three of them bodily to Ulster.

Sigurðr ( disguised as Gunnar ) and claimed Brynhildr's hand, and they stayed there three nights, but Sigurðr laid his sword between them ( meaning that he did not take her virginity before giving her to the real Gunnar ).

Later the law against gambling was tightened eluding which they disguised Basset under the name of " pour and contre ", that is, " for and against ".

The wooden gas chambers were disguised as the barracks and showers of a labor camp, so that the victims would not realize the true purpose of the site, and the process was conducted as quickly as possible: people were forced to run from the trains to the gas chambers, leaving them no time to absorb where they were or to plan a revolt.