Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

He took a lead on the enemy, using a distance of five of the radii in his circular sight and then added another.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

He half sat up and scratched at the hair on his forehead and then, more vigorously, between his legs.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

The man took two short steps backward then sat down heavily on the pavement.

He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.

Gross stopped briefly, then went on.

On this issue, then, as on so many in these months, Steele and Swift took rigidly opposed points of view.

He paused for a moment to look at me, then went on to the city desk to deliver his `` Today '' column.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

Winter annuals germinate in autumn or winter, live through the winter, then bloom in winter or spring.

Shrubs wit shoot buds not stalked, male and female catkins produced in late spring ( after leaves appear ) and expanding and pollinating then, one to four species:

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

He travelled to the inner wilderness for three days, until he found a spring of water and some palm trees, and then he chose to settle there.

Specifically, if p is the natural length of a section of spring, then the length of the spring with tension T applied has length

Diocletian then returned to Sirmium, where he would remain for the following winter and spring.

He steered the boat to land with the axe, then threw it ashore ; a spring appeared where it landed.

The party then held a member referendum on this question in the spring of 2003 which changed the party statute.

; Vault: In the vaulting events gymnasts sprint down a runway, jump onto or perform a roundoff entry onto a springboard ( run / take-off segment ), land momentarily, inverted on the hands on the vaulting horse or vaulting table ( pre flight segment ), then spring off of this platform to a two footed landing ( post flight segment ).

In the early spring of 1326, after a journey of over, Ibn Battuta arrived at the port of Alexandria, then part of the Bahri Mamluk empire.

The next spring they moved to Kingston and then Newark ( now Niagara-on-the-Lake ).

Thus it happened that, with Hermes as their guide, the three candidates bathed in the spring of Ida, then confronted Paris on Mount Ida in the climactic moment that is the crux of the tale.

Released in early 1265, Edward then defeated Montfort at the Battle of Evesham ; the surviving rebels under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, Montfort's constable at Kenilworth, regrouped at the castle the following spring.

The Soviets also then blamed the United States for communist losses in elections in Belgium, France and Italy months earlier, in the spring of 1947.

In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter ; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring.

At the beginning of the spring thaw, they used stone tools to make V-shaped incisions in tree trunks ; they then inserted reeds or concave pieces of bark to run the sap into buckets, which were often made from birch bark.

Henry III was enraged by Beatrice's unauthorised marriage to his enemy and he descended into Italy in the early spring of 1055, arriving at Verona in April and then Mantua by Easter.

A new set of antlers will then regrow in the spring.

The user then pulls out the finger, and a spring in the dial returns it to the resting position.

In the spring of 1941, Finland contributed a battalion of volunteers to the Waffen SS, which then fought on the Eastern Front.

In Taoism, Hanshi and the spring Hanshi festival were when fires were not used and then relit.