It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

But today many of those men are reaching retirement age and suddenly realizing that they face an estate tax problem with their closely held companies and also that they have no second-echelon management in their firms.

He saw her emerge suddenly, coming in her unhesitant fashion, her back stiff, her head erect, facing with contempt the night and whatever she would encounter, as if in her extreme disdain and indifference she would pass by all the outraged looks of those whom she might approach.

Unfortunately, the end of expansion can cause a severe financial shock to those using the currency as expectations are suddenly adjusted.

It also concerns me that once the pork barrel is filled, suddenly the Church of Scientology, the Jehovah Witnesses, the various and many denominations and religious groups — and I don't say those words in a pejorative way — begin applying for money — and I don't see how any can be turned down because of their radical and unpopular views.

From the 1960s an increasing number of American youths started to come into contact with new religious movements ( NRM ), and some who converted suddenly adopted beliefs and behaviors that differed greatly from those of their families and friends ; in some cases they neglected or even broke contact with their loved ones.

If there is no distinct boundary, then the population of A suddenly stopped using the customs characteristic of A and suddenly started using those of B, an unlikely scenario in the process of evolution.

It had been noticed some time before that if a regenerative receiver was allowed to go into oscillation, other receivers nearby would suddenly start picking up stations on frequencies different from those that the stations were actually transmitted on.

Harthacnut presumably consumed large quanties of alcohol, as he was drinking to the health of the bride — he " died as he stood at his drink, and he suddenly fell to the earth with an awful convulsion ; and those who were close by took hold of him, and he spoke no word afterwards …" The likely cause of death was a stroke, " brought about by an excessive intake of alcohol " In The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England ( 2000 ), Clifford Brewer suggested a cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death.

On 6 July 1734 his ship sailed past the coast of Greenland when suddenly those on board

Dream scenes may be indistinguishable from those set in the dreamer's real world, a narrative device that undermines the dreamer's and the audience's sense of security and allows horror film protagonists, such as those of Carrie ( 1976 ), Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) or An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) to be suddenly attacked by dark forces while resting in seemingly safe places.

Author and journalist Elena Poniatowska culled interviews from those present that night and described what proceeded in her book Massacre in Mexico: “ Flares suddenly appeared in the sky overhead and everyone automatically looked up.

A similar gag was used in A Tale Of Two Kitties when Tweety, wearing an air raid warden's helmet, suddenly yells out in that same voice: " Turn out those lights!

I was reminded of some of those leprous facades in the vieux port at Marseille, until suddenly I was disturbed by such a bawling and caterwauling as you never heard, and there, down in the little piazza, I saw a mob of about twenty terrible young men, and do you know what they were chanting We want Blanche.

In cities that grew up suddenly and more recently, such as those in the western half of North America, a single central area will often contain all the tallest buildings.

Adair waited until the bulk of the parade had already made its way up the Shankill before having the LVF suddenly unfurled at the Rex, and when this happened skirmishes broke out between a group of UVF members, who had been standing outside the Rex watching the parade of flute bands and UDA members make its way up the Shankill, and those who had unfurled the LVF flag.

This causes the battery as a whole to seem to discharge rapidly as those individual cells discharge quickly and the voltage of the battery as a whole suddenly falls.

Many of those accused of rightism and who had been persecuted for that crime for 22 years were suddenly found never to have been labeled as rightists.

* for the same reason, on a very long train, a considerable volume of air has to be admitted to the train pipe to make a full brake application, and a considerable volume has to be exhausted to release the brake ( if for example a signal at danger is suddenly lowered and the driver requires to resume speed ); while the air is traveling along the train pipe, the brake pistons at the head of the train have responded to the brake application or release, but those at the tail will respond much later, leading to undesirable longitudinal forces in the train.

They did not like what they read, perhaps most of all because they suddenly learned they were now no longer permitted to run as candidates for the Chamber of Deputies, membership of which was the < span lang =" la "> sine qua non </ span > of those who sought the ultimate in social prestige.

In his later years, Haruhisa suddenly decided to kill his uncle Amago Kunihisa as well as those retainers under him collectively called Shingūtō ( 新宮党 ) from the town Shingū which was their power base, resulting in a serious shortage of battle-proven leaders.

Unfortunately, the end of expansion can cause a severe financial shock to those using the currency as expectations are suddenly adjusted.

A shine in her eyes suddenly became tears and she turned back to her husband again.

Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

I suddenly thought of Mary Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses.

She met my eyes, suddenly angry.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

In time, and two drinks later, he was complaining bitterly about his wife, He was on the subject for ten minutes or so when he noticed the renewed interest in his listener -- it showed in the alert face and the suddenly bright eyes.

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.

Because he'd been sitting in my house with my acoustic guitar, writing these songs like ' I Don't Care ', fucking up my guitar, and suddenly he's this guy on stage who you can't take your eyes off of.

Paul suddenly finds that he is able to see through the eyes of the infant Leto, allowing him to aim and throw a crysknife that kills Scytale.

With eyes almost closed it watches through tiny slits, rising suddenly, sometimes with a croak of alarm, but usually silently, when almost stepped on.

We whose names are here underwritten: having been called to give our counsels to Mr. Orlando Gibbons ; in the time of his late and sudden sickness, which we found in the beginning lethargical, or a profound sleep ; out of which, we could never recover him, neither by inward nor outward medicines, & then instantly he fell in most strong, & sharp convulsions ; which did wring his mouth up to his ears, & his eyes were distorted, as though they would have been thrust out of his head & then suddenly he lost both speech, sight and hearing, & so grew apoplectical & lost the whole motion of every part of his body, & so died.

The situation was suddenly changed, however, and Philip was tardily forced again into the opposition against the Emperor, by the Treaty of Crépy of 1544, which opened his eyes to the danger threatening Protestantism.

The victim becomes a persecutor, and throws the previous persecutor into the victim role, or the rescuer suddenly switches to become a persecutor (" You never appreciate me helping you !/ Why are your eyes so far apart?

His words were often incoherent ; he slobbered and drooled and, most unnerving of all, he would suddenly scream in terror, his eyes rolling helplessly and his body shaking.

When Lyra suddenly opens her eyes again, she is lying in a soft, comfortable bed with a recovering Pan at her side.

My eyes swept the floor anxiously, then suddenly I saw lightning strike.

* When talking about taking pictures of people he passes on the street, he says ; " I often startle passers-by when I suddenly pull it out of my trousers and it goes off in their eyes.

members were suddenly the widely praised heroes throughout FR Yugoslavia as well as in the eyes of Western governments.

As the camera rolls back from the cell, it is revealed that Liam had killed a prison officer to get in, and Liam suddenly appears in front of the camera, and reveals his eyes are now permanently like the djinn's.

One evening, after meditation, I opened my eyes and suddenly saw I was in brightness similar to broad daylight in which I could see everything inside and outside the monastery ..." But he knew that this occurrence was only a mental state, and that it was not at all rare.

He died suddenly at Hanover, whither he had been called to operate on the eyes of the crown prince.

As the coroner opens the body bag, Michael's eyes suddenly open showing that he is still alive and a scream can be heard.

From large gulls that amass in the skies and swoop down suddenly, to falcons, with their predatory eyes, can cause fear and anxiety in human beings.

He let his guards eat their meals down in the dungeon, and they spread crumbs all over the place, so suddenly his lovely dungeons are swarming with cockroaches, not to mention goblins, serpents, evil eyes, and other nasty things.