For an instant John longed for the sound of the bells of Noyon-la-Sainte, the touch of his mother's hand, the lilt of Charles's voice in the square raftered rooms, his father's bass tones rumbling to the canons, and the sight of the beloved bishop.

For an instant John was stunned.

For an instant the old aunt felt something indefinable flash through her smile.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

For just an instant he thought of appealing to them for help.

For example, suppose a free body ( one having no external forces on it ) is at rest at some instant.

For example, code can be parsed while being written, providing instant feedback on syntax errors.

For differential input signals, they vigorously change their instant resistances in opposite directions but the total resistance stays constant ( like a potentiometer with quickly moving slider ).

For the instant messaging client, see Pidgin ( software ).

For the moving organism, the lengthy time of the journey was a mere instant, provided the motion took place with approximately the speed of light.

For example, instant note-on capability could mask the deficiencies of note detection ( tracking ) in guitar MIDI systems, especially on lower strings.

For example, instant runoff voting is considered to have less frequent IIA failure than First Past the Post ( also known as Plurality Rule ).

For a receiver, the attack-time delay is defined as the time interval from the instant a step radio-frequency ( RF ) signal, at a level equal to the receiver's threshold of sensitivity, is applied to the receiver input, to the instant when the receiver's output amplitude reaches 90 % of its steady-state value.

For a transmitter, the attack-time delay is defined as the interval from the instant the transmitter is keyed-on to the instant the transmitted RF signal amplitude has increased to a specified level, usually 90 % of its key-on steady-state value.

For example, when a character takes photographs with an instant camera, inside of the camera box, a bird carves the picture on a stone tablet with its beak.

For this reason, in April 2007, the instant messaging client formerly named Gaim ( or gaim ) announced that they would be renamed " Pidgin ".

For an instant, glimpses of her bare breasts and nipples were visible in a scene where her character was bathing in asses ' milk, a scene that came to be regarded as an example of Hollywood decadence prior to the enforcement of the Production Code.

For example, this may include bloggers who have attracted large readerships producing a book based on their websites, books based on Internet memes, instant " celebrities " such as Joe the Plumber, retiring sports figures and in general anyone whom a publisher feels could produce a marketable book.

For example, instant run-off voting redistributes votes for minor candidates according to the voter's expressed order of preference.

For an instant, the ravishing Sullavan looks old and ill, touched by loss.

In the United States for example, under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, all phone calls and broadband Internet traffic ( emails, web traffic, instant messaging, etc.

In the United States for example, under the Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act, all phone calls and broadband internet traffic ( emails, web traffic, instant messaging, etc.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

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.

For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.

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.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

For a delightful drive out of Athens I should recommend Sounion, at the end of the Attic Peninsula.

For example, even the most successful executive lives in a two-room apartment while ordinary people rent space in the stairwells of office buildings in which to sleep at night ; ;

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

For ten years a small group of European and U.S. critics has been calling attention to the half-forgotten Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele, who died 42 years ago at the age of 28.

For, after leaving the Army in 1956, I spent five years in Graduate School first at Boston College and then at the University of Toronto.

For readjustment to the U.S., volunteers should be given some separation allowance at the end of their overseas service, based on the length of time served.

For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

For treatment of shipping fever, this level should be fed at the onset of the disease symptoms until symptoms disappear.

For prevention of foamy bloat, feed at a rate of 0.5 to 2 milligrams per head per day in mineral or salt or feed.

For treatment of bloat, drug is fed at a higher level.

For the prevention of acetonemia ( ketosis ) feed 1/4 pound per day beginning at calving and continuing for 6 weeks.