Some of his song titles are still more surreal, in that they do not reflect the subject matter, such as " Giraffes Don't Play Harmonicas, So It Can't Be a Giraffe " and " The Consequences of Living in a Container ".

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

We were at a party once and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious.

`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

To have applied statewide the decisions of the two cases heard in Superior Court, in my opinion, would have placed us clearly out of compliance with the Wagner-Peyser Act and would have immediately opened the way for the Secretary of Labor, were he so inclined, to notify the Governor of such noncompliance, set a date for hearing, and issue his finding.

The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.

Occasionally they heard gun-shot signals and a number of horsemen were sighted on the hills, disappearing at the posse's approach.

Though they are often heard clairaudiently, as if a voice were speaking them, in other cases they are apprehended visually as symbols: a slope to signify the name `` Hill '', for instance.

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

Oddly, the calls were still heard 11 days after the five were arrested.

Appeals were heard for two days two weeks ago.

There were 8,000 persons at the Stadium who can tell their grandchildren that they heard Elman.

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

They were good-living religious people, and I can truthfully say I never heard them spread any gossip about anybody.

In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.

Alcott was one of several who attempted to storm the courthouse ; when gunshots were heard, he was the only one who stood his ground, though the effort was unsuccessful.

Alfred had been on his way to relieve his son at Thorney when he heard that the Northumbrian and East Anglian Danes were besieging Exeter and an unnamed stronghold on the North Devon shore.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

In 1990, she also joined the group Hi-Tek 3 who were heard on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie soundtrack.

However, other songs, including " In Praise of Women ", " The Miller's Son " and " Liaisons ", were cut and remain heard only as background orchestrations.

The recordings of these bands and their songs were rarely heard or exported outside the originating countries but many can now be found on compilation albums and CDs from specialist record shops.

The guns were heard by Baden in his camp before Ingolstadt, " The Prince and the Duke are engaged today to the westward ", he wrote to the Emperor.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

I just can't take any chances on getting her pregnant, and if we were sleeping together ''

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

The morning's tabloids were on the counter, and a stack of dog-eared men's magazines.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

The clearly identifiable enemy continued on as if no one else were around.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

We were back on the road.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Out of compulsion to say something cheery, Ben Prime blurted, `` Well, we were lucky to be on soft ground when the first floodheads hit.

He examined the water marks on the iron tires when the animals were finished.

There were gigantic blisters and rope burns on our hands ; ;

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.