A quarter of a century later, Joseph Conrad described Amsterdam's trams in chapter 14 of The Mirror of the Sea ( 1906 ): From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappearing in the opening between the buildings, like little toy carriages harnessed with toy horses and played with by people that appeared no bigger than children.

From afar the incident had looked much worse and was replayed repeated on slow-motion television with a media furore and press demanding disciplinary action.

From afar, drawing near

From afar drawing nigh,

From afar, Lü Bu fired an arrow and it came squarely on its target.

" From afar, it seems like it would be an important step.

From afar he saw Yan sitting on a chariot under the army standard.

From afar, Lucas happens to be riding by and witness their first kiss.

From afar the Siguanaba can imitate the appearance of a man's girlfriend in order to lead him astray.

From afar, it appears as if Hank, a white cop, is brutalizing a black suspect while at the same time a Latino man catches the incident on tape in a story that Earl eagerly backs up in Court.

From afar, the witch Tabitha Lennox ( knowing that Sheridan was alive ) discovered that Sheridan, Brian, and Luis were three souls forever bound by love, betrayal, and death.

From a hiding place in the forest, Harry watches the Dementor sequence and discovers that he had been the one who conjured the patronus, and he is touched and confused to note that his patronus had taken the shape of a stag that he recognises instantly as Prongs, his father's animagi form.

From the longboat, the crew watches the Kraken drag the Pearl and Sparrow to Davy Jones ' Locker.

From a neighboring peak, Foley watches as Shawn ( Schroder ), a 10-year-old boy, begins collecting firewood.

From here, the player enters the band's dressing room and watches a videotaped message from Steven Tyler before escaping the building ( by shooting the mirror ).

From the original cult plastic watches, Swatch has diversified its offerings considerably, and the company now sells more than a dozen different types of watches, including metal-bodied watches ( the Irony series ); diving watches ( the Scuba series ); thin and flat bodied watches ( the Skin family ); and even an Internet-connected watch that can download stock quotes, news headlines, weather reports, and other data ( the Paparazzi series ).

From the beginning, the objective of the “ Frères Baume ” company was to make high-quality traditional watches enriched by various technological breakthroughs of the era.

From this vantage point, and with the help of a telescope, the seemingly all-knowing wizard watches the countryside, with the shore to the east and the desert to the west.

From the crumbling Majestic Hotel at Kilnalough, he watches Ireland's fight for independence from Britain.

From 1966 to 1969, Hamilton Lancaster and Buren Switzerland were operated as a joint concern, with Hamilton using a number of Swiss movements for their " American " watches and Buren utilizing a number of components manufactured by Hamilton Lancaster.

From 1969 to 1972, all new Hamilton watches were produced in Switzerland by Hamilton's Buren subsidiary.

From concealment he watches as Drewnowski arrives thinking he will join them, but Andrzej is aware that Drewnowski is only doing it because he has no other choice.

From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

From there, they went on to defeat the power-laden New York Yankees in a seven-game Series, during which Clemente batted. 310, hitting safely at least once in every game ( exactly one half of a streak which would be completed much more resoundingly eleven years later in The Great One's signature Series, i. e. the Pirates ' 1971, come-from-behind, seven-game victory over the Baltimore Orioles ).

From its stronghold of Narbonne, they tried to conquer Aquitaine but suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ).

** Volume 2: From the defeat of the Spanish Armada to the battle of Waterloo

From the 1860s to 1950s, a major application of armor-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armor carried on many warships.

From 1944, as German defeat became more and more inevitable, the shape of post-war Europe assumed greater importance in Allied strategy.

From the outset, Planescape: Torments designers intended to challenge traditional role-playing game conventions: the game features no dragons, elves, goblins, or other common fantasy races ; there are only three swords ; the rats faced in the game can be quite challenging to defeat ; and the undead sometimes prove more sympathetic than humans.

From 1886 to 1946, the champion set the terms, requiring any challenger to raise a sizable stake and defeat the champion in a match in order to become the new world champion.

From May 2007-spring, 2008, COPE made overtures to Vision Vancouver to enter into a coalition for the 2008 election " to defeat the NPA " with little success.

From 1924 Prestes was one of the leaders of the insurrectionary movement, leading the Coluna Prestes, Prestes ' column, on a march through the rural Brazilian countryside, aiming, not to defeat the enemy forces of the Federal government, but to ensure the column's survival and to continue to threaten the enemy.

From the defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus, he fled to Corcyra, and after hearing of the death of Pompey, proceeded to Africa.

From the 1871 unification of Germany to its defeat in World War I, Prussia comprised almost two-thirds of the territory of the German Empire.

From here, on October 12, 1806, the French Emperor sent an arrogant and threatening letter to King Frederick William III of Prussia – a letter that led directily to war and to the crushing defeat of Prussia at the Battle of Jena a few days later.

From his experiences at the Battle of Grunwald, Žižka knew exactly how his enemies would attack, and he found new ways to defeat forces numerically superior to his own.

From the 22 to the 24 April each year the town celebrates the Moros i Cristians ( Moors and Christians ) festival, commemorating the 13th century defeat by the Christians of the occupying Moorish rulers.

From the beginning a dispute over the Party's running of candidates arose with many of the official unions totally opposed to running candidates that might cause the defeat of their normal Democratic allies.

From 1842, following an analysis of the defeat of China against Great Britain in the Opium War and the spread of Western influence in Asia, Sakuma Shozan actively proposed the introduction of Western military methods to the Bakufu and the establishment of maritime defense, through his book " Eight policies for the defense of the sea " ().

From 1954 until the Liberal government's defeat in the 1957 election, Macdonald served as Solicitor General of Canada.

From 1815, after the conclusive defeat of Napoleon, the policy of reaction devised by Austria's foreign minister, Prince Metternich, dominated European affairs.

From the British point of view, the defeat of the 51st Division was the end of the Allied resistance during the battle of France.

From this electoral defeat came one of Diouf's greatest contributions to African peace, for he gracefully surrendered power to Abdoulaye Wade, his long-time rival.

From November 26, 1975 to December 3, 1975, major labor unions of JNR conducted an eight-day-long illegal " strike for the right to strike ", which resulted in a total defeat of the unions.

From 1947 to 1950 he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Commonwealth Relations Office, and in 1950 he joined the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, serving until Labour's defeat at the 1951 general election.

From Jalalabad, General Pollock inflicted a further crushing defeat on Akbar Khan.

From its very beginning the republic was afflicted with the stigma of the military defeat.