They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

You see, he lied to us when he said he was leavin alone ''.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

A bullet tore the earth from beneath his foot when he was a stride or two from safety.

It was a relief when they finally came.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

How could he comprehend her need when he himself was innocent??

His face was stiff with anger when they let go of his arms.

He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

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.

After an appeal is heard, the " mandate " is a formal notice of a decision by a court of appeal ; this notice is transmitted to the trial court and, when filed by the clerk of the trial court, constitutes the final judgment on the case, unless the appeal court has directed further proceedings in the trial court.

Certain stones, when examined in thin sections by transmitted light, show a diffraction spectrum due to the extreme delicacy of the successive bands, whence they are termed rainbow agates.

9 / 11 pilot hijacker Ziad Jarrah aboard Flight 93 also made a similar error when he mistakenly transmitted announcements to Cleveland ATC about the hijacking.

Engine power is transmitted via a set of vee-belts that are slack when the engine is idling, but by means of a tensioner pulley can be tightened to increase friction between the belts and the sheaves.

Lower data rates also reduce cost and improve performance when the data is transmitted.

Demand-pull inflation is in contrast with cost-push inflation, when price and wage increases are being transmitted from one sector to another.

For instance, when atoms are irradiated by a source with a broad spectrum, distinct absorption lines will appear in the spectrum of transmitted radiation.

He realised that with most printing telegraphs of the period the line is idle for most of the time, apart from the brief intervals when a character is transmitted.

These wounds, even when they are microscopic, increase the chances of contracting STDs that can be transmitted orally under these conditions.

The process is often initiated as a result of sexual arousal, when signals are transmitted from the brain to nerves in the penis.

Infectious diseases are sometimes called " contagious " when they are easily transmitted by contact with an ill person or their secretions ( e. g., influenza ).

The IBAN should not contain spaces when transmitted electronically.

For this reason, it is clear that when social and economic inequalities centered on inheritance are perpetuated by major social institutions such as family, education, religion, etc., these differing life opportunities are transmitted from each generation.

* LDAP-compliant servers will never dereference the distinguished name transmitted in the add request when attempting to locate the entry, that is, distinguished names are never de-aliased.

This effectively limits Internet email to messages which, when transmitted, include only the characters sufficient for writing a small number of languages, primarily English.

Also, the light that is being detected is reflected and not transmitted as it is when DIC is employed.

The increased size of OSC messages as compared to MIDI messages make OSC an impractical solution for many mobile devices, and its touted speed advantages over MIDI disappear when both are transmitted over equal media.

The same sources tell that when the Xiongnu noted down something or transmitted a message, they made cuts on a piece of wood ( ko-mu ), and they also mention a " Hu script ".

Pelvic inflammatory disease is more likely to occur when there is a history of pelvic inflammatory disease, recent sexual contact, recent onset of menses, or an IUD in place or if the partner has a sexually transmitted infection.

Because of the thinned array curse, such arrays of multiple apertures, when used in transmitters, result in narrow beams at the expense of reducing the total power transmitted to the target.

This means that we stop generating reflected / transmitted rays when the computed intensity becomes less than a certain threshold.

Regardless of whether the document is HTML or XHTML, when stored on a file system or transmitted over a network, the document's characters are encoded as a sequence of bit octets ( bytes ) according to a particular character encoding.

A watermark is a recognizable image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness / darkness when viewed by transmitted light ( or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background ), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper.

Government was still centred around William's household ; when he was in one part of his realms, decisions would be made for other parts of his domains and transmitted through a communication system that utilised letters and other documents.