Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.

I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.

He didn't look back and he ran until he was out of sight of the schoolhouse and out of breath ; ;

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

Social Darwinism was able to stave off the incipient socialist movement until well into the present century.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

His company then carried out a confused retreating movement until it was surrounded by the Germans, a few days before France capitulated.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 1793.

Their commander-in-chief that day, Marshal Tallard – who, unlike his subordinates, had not been ransomed or exchanged – was taken to England and imprisoned in Nottingham until his release in 1711.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

In 1711 the city of Cap-Français was formerly established by Louis XIV and took over as capital of the colony from Port-de-Paix.

In 1711, while the Elector of Bavaria was under the ban of the Empire, the Elector Palatine again acted as vicar, but his cousin was restored to his position upon his restoration three years later.

The first recorded use of the term performing arts was in 1711.

He became fellow of Jesus College and vicar of Swavesey, and in 1711 was chosen Adams Professor of Arabic in the university.

The tuning fork was invented in 1711 by British musician John Shore, Sergeant Trumpeter and Lutenist to the court, who had parts specifically written for him by both George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell.

Queen Anne also authorized a major expedition against Quebec City in 1711 ; this expedition, led by Admiral Hovenden Walker, was a complete disaster.

* 1711: The Tuning fork was invented by John Shore

Year 1711 ( MDCCXI ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The original settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile was relocated in 1711 to the head of Mobile Bay following a series of floods.

The first informal mystic society, or krewe, was formed in Mobile in 1711, the Boeuf Gras Society.

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

On 6 March 1711, she was proclaimed a Tsarevna, and on 23 December 1721, a Tsesarevna.

* Giuseppe Bonno ( 1711 – 1788 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen in the 1750s and 1760s.

* Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri ( 1711 – 1787 ) was Kapellmeister ( Maestro di Cappella ) in the Cathedral of Forlì, in Italy, from 1759.

This brought Pope instant fame, and was followed by An Essay on Criticism, published in May 1711, which was equally well received.