It seemed to her, as it seemed each night, that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table's empty chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows.

Mutinies became frequent in all parts of the Empire ; in Rome, the Praetorian Guard became infuriated by the actions of the praetorian praefect Ulpian.

His goals became a little less frequent, and indeed Jimmy Greaves, playing purely as a striker, would overtake Charlton's England tally in October 1964.

Political polarization increased, and large mobilizations of both pro-and anti-government groups became frequent, often leading to clashes.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

Edgar Chamorro, a former Contra and member of the FDN's political directorate who later became a critic of the Contras, stated that during his time with the Contras, he frequently received reports about atrocities committed by Contra troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners: " As time went on, I became more and more troubled by the frequent reports I received of atrocities committed by our troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners.

The use of a spotlight from high at the back onto the actors to rimlight them became more frequent, and around 1918 some American cameramen started to use spotlights to light the actors from the front.

“ Let the Music Play ” eventually became freestyle's biggest hit, and still receives frequent airplay.

She continued to star in various films, but by the early 1940s, her appearances became less frequent.

Starting in 1967, North became a frequent contributor to the libertarian journal The Freeman where he had first read their work.

Thucydides, who had been trained in rhetoric, became the model for subsequent prose-writers as an author who seeks to appear firmly in control of his material, whereas Herodotus with his frequent digressions appeared to minimize ( or possibly disguise ) his auctorial control.

Chadwick moved to Brooklyn with his family at the age of 12, and became a frequent player of early ball games such as rounders.

Since his offices were close to the Chancellery, he was a frequent guest for lunch, during which he became adept at listening to Hitler ’ s monologues and agreeing with his opinions.

After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.

Robert E. Lee was appointed superintendent of the Academy in 1852, and Stuart became friends with the Lee family, seeing them socially on frequent occasions.

Grammer began drinking at age nine and became a frequent abuser of alcohol.

From 1200 onwards Polynesian long-distance voyages became less frequent, and had there been human settlement on Christmas Island, it would have been abandoned in the early-mid second millennium AD.

As a teenager, he became an ardent admirer of Ze ' ev Jabotinsky and Peter Bergson, who were frequent guests in his parents ' home, and joined the Betar ( Brit Trumpeldor ) youth wing of Revisionist Zionism.

Contacts became more frequent after 1840, because of the interest in sandalwood from New Caledonia.

The governing body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) was the Party Congress which initially met annually but whose meetings became less frequent, particularly under Joseph Stalin.

Thus followed the line of Lomonosov and the contributions of the Russian school became more frequent through his disciples, and in the nineteenth century we have great geographers as Vasily Dokuchaev who performed works of great importance as a " principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory " and " Russian Chernozem " latter being the most important where introduces the geographical concept of soil, as distinct from a simple geological strata, and thus founding a new geographic area of study: the Pedology.

It is also generally agreed that in the post – Cold War era this type of practice became more significant and frequent ( Sheptycki, 2000 ).

In 1866, Ward visited England, where he became exceedingly popular both as a lecturer and as a contributor to Punch.

Best recognized for his essays and unsigned " Notes and Comment " pieces, he gradually became the most important contributor to The New Yorker at a time when it was arguably the most important American literary magazine.

He corresponded with other antiquarians in New England, where antiquarianism and genealogy were well established, and became a coordinator, booster, and contributor to the growing movement.

He became part owner, chief editor, and an active contributor to the literary journal Magazin für Literatur, where he hoped to find a readership sympathetic to his philosophy.

" Solomon became a favorite author and contributor of different kinds of wisdom literature, " including not only the collections of Proverbs, but also of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and the later apocryphal book the Wisdom of Solomon.

Tight end Ben Coates also became a major contributor as a favorite target of Drew Bledsoe.

Rampton is also a contributor to the Wikipedia open content project, and was the person who coined the name " Wikimedia " which later became the name of the foundation that manages Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Mad editor Al Feldstein and publisher Bill Gaines liked what they saw, and Aragonés became a contributor to the magazine in 1963.

Morris also became both editor and principal contributor to the League's monthly-soon to become weekly-newspaper, Commonweal, which became the first place where his published essays, poems, and other works appeared.

Claremont became the series ' longest-running contributor.

Even as animal domestication became relatively widespread and after the development of agriculture, hunting was usually a significant contributor to the human food supply.

He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger in the early 90s, initiating GNU Radio in 1998, starting Gnash in December 2005 to create a free software player for Flash movies, and writing the pdtar program which became GNU tar.

The 1970s was a period when video recording became a major contributor to the television industry.

* The European Community ( later European Union ) became an important economic contributor towards the nascent Palestinian Authority.

Though William Barbee died shortly after establishing himself and his family in North Carolina, one of his eight children, Christopher Barbee, became an important contributor to his father ’ s adopted community and to the fledgling University of North Carolina.

He has been giving lectures at Brown University, about Brazilian economic policy, urban development, and deforestation and taught as a guest lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris .. Also, in 2007 he became a member of the editorial board of the Latin American policy publication Americas Quarterly, for which he is a regular contributor.

He became an active contributor to the Third Stream movement in jazz music, ( which included such other notable musicians as Gunther Schuller and John Lewis ), and wrote a number of large-scale works which incorporated elements of both classical and jazz music.

McKnight joined Parliament-Funkadelic in the late 1970s and became a frequent contributor on guitar.

The Hassayampa community became a vital contributor to the US effort during World War II when the Army trained thousands of men to fly gliders at a newly constructed airfield west of Wickenburg.

As oil production waned, tank farms were dismantled, and agriculture became once again a major contributor to the Jenks economy.

Towards the end of his undergraduate degree he became a contributor to the Westminster Review with his first article entitled " Electrotype and Daguerreotype ," published in September 1840.

Holdheim now became a contributor to the Jewish periodicals ( e. g., Philippson's Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums and Jost's Israelitische Annalen ).

After a brief experience in a variety of trades, in his late teens George Banks became a contributor to various newspapers, and subsequently a playwright, being the author of plays, burlesques and lyrics.