First came epidemics of the childhood diseases of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and, especially, measles.

First came epidemics of the childhood diseases of chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough, and, especially, measles.

The boy came on to the porch and sat down, his gaze on Morgan as if half expecting him to shoot and not really caring.

Clayton called to him and he came slowly down the steps.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

And then came the water -- not rain, but solid sheets that sluiced down like water slopping from a bucket.

Every so often the diminishing sound of a car came under the trailer as it slowed down for the wreck then speeded up again as it got clear.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

We came down off the wall as if he had toppled all of us, and we crouched behind it.

and in that brief interval, a redcoat officer came tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to kill.

Rank after rank of them came down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust.

The front of their column had already passed us, when another officer came riding down the side of the road, not five paces from where we were.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

At that moment the bathroom door flew open and Eugene came out, with his face lathered for shaving, and strode down the hall, tying the sash of his dressing gown as he went.

As Kate came swiftly down the stairs to the hall she saw Colonel Marsh framed in the doorway, his face set in the same vulnerable look Juanita wore.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

Day after day Fogg shuttled back and forth on his one-man air mail route, until the farmers in their snowy barnyards and the road repairmen came to recognize the stubby plane as their link with the rest of the country.

On September 24, he and Brown, whose company was guarding the road between St. John's and Montreal, met at Longueuil, and, according to Allen's account of the events, came up with a plan in which both he and Brown would lead their forces to attack Montreal.

Munch wrote of how the painting came to be: " I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set ; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood.

Travelling performers, itinerant traders and wandering craftsmen who spend most of their time " on the road " came to see their world as separate from those governed by legal authorities.

It was very hard for them to stay together in an economic hardship and the trade union movement came to a bump in the road.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

During the late Middle Ages it was an independent commune with considerable importance owing to its location on the old Via Francigena, the main road between France and Rome, but increasingly Montalcino came under the sway of the larger and more aggressive city of Siena.

Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.

The change came into force following a radio announcement at 5. 50 local time ( 16. 50 GMT ) which halted traffic and an announcement at 6. 00 ( 15. 00 GMT ) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road.

The road came on Chinese maps published in 1958.

Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P. O. D., Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time.

Their first win came in 1977 on the road against the New Orleans Saints.

Gébelin further claimed that the name " tarot " came from the Egyptian words tar, meaning " royal ", and ro, meaning " road ", and that the Tarot therefore represented a " royal road " to wisdom.

However, in 2009, years of planning and joint involvement of Havant and Winchester councils came to fruition with the ' West of Waterlooville Major Development Area ' housing scheme, starting with Maurepas Roundabout, being enlarged to accommodate for a new road and increased traffic that comes with the new homes.

With land holding, taxes came due and new owners, in lieu of payment, were obliged to work 15 days per year on public projects, such as wharf construction, road building, etc.

Meanwhile the balloon came to rest atop a 60 foot dead fir tree in the forest near a local road.

The word turnpike came into common use in the names of these roadways and companies, and is essentially used interchangeably with toll road in current terminology.

Then in 1950 came the fast and dangerous Carrera Panamericana, a road race in stages across Mexico to celebrate the opening of the asphalt highway between the Guatemala and United States borders, which ran until 1954.