The cloudburst cut off abruptly.

Hans cut the foil off finally and unscrewed the cap.

`` How many times have I told you '' -- he began, and was almost glad when she cut him off -- `` Too many times ''!!

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

As soon as an experimental tug assures you that roots have taken over, cut it off from the mother plant.

) Put a 2-56 roundhead screw into the hole, cut off the excess threads and file flush with the underside of the bar.

On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??

The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief.

'' Despite Company threats, duly carried through, to cut off supplies of powder, ball, and thread for fishing nets, about 350 persons stayed in the village.

With their customary source of supply cut off, the Fort Garry free traders engaged three men to cart goods to them from the Mississippi country.

On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.

He waved at Fox to cut off the finale introduction.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

`` But Arger never was able to produce it, so I cut him off my payroll ''.

Question at issue: How big a vote should be necessary to restrict Senate debate -- and thereby cut off legislation-delaying filibusters??

New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds.

Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.

Johnston had various remaining military units scattered throughout his territory and retreating to the south to avoid being cut off.

In another sense, the entire town feels in exile, since it is completely cut off from the outside world.

Some, like Rambert, are exiles in double measure since they are not only cut off from those they want to be with but they do not have the luxury of being in their own homes.

The town Oran, which gets afflicted by pestilence and cut off from the outside world, is the equivalent of France.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she was born when Cronus cut off Uranus ' genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the sea foam ( aphros ) arose Aphrodite.

This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the Jesuits: " Societas Jesu " turned into " Vitiosa seces ", or " cut off the wicked things ".

my nephew dethroned me ; they cut off the heads of

It is said that after Heracles was apotheosised, Hyllus, having pursued and killed Eurystheus, cut off Eurystheus ' head and gave it to Alcmene, who gouged out the eyes with weaving pins.

Tall, blonde, blue-eyes, fair, buxom without being heavy, she cut a fine figure of budding womanhood as she swished among the pupils in her fresh, starched summer dress.

The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

Sometimes she even wore the uniform in solid, unrelieved black, and with her blonde hair cut so closely, wearing this uniform, she strongly resembled a member of the SS..

She was a large woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil clamped like a bit between her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter.

She was wearing a brown cotton dress, cut across the hips in a way that was supposed to make her look slimmer, a yoke set into the skirt and flaring pleats below.

With her sharp tongue she'd have cut his pompousness to ribbons.

Nick watched her somewhat enviously as she efficiently cut the engines, and started the auxiliary motor.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

" A man should not say: I shall carry out the precepts of the Torah and study her wisdom in order to receive all the blessings written therein or in order to merit the life of the World to Come and I shall keep away from the sins forbidden by the Torah in order to be spared the curses mentioned in the Torah or in order not to be cut off from the life of the World to Come.

A Sandinista militiaman interviewed by The Guardian stated that Contra rebels committed these atrocities against Sandinista prisoners after a battle at a Sandinista rural outpost: " Rosa had her breasts cut off.

Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart.

Britain was required to scrap most of her vast First World War fleet ( only two new, oddly-shaped, battleships, Rodney and Nelson were built at this time, known colloquially as the ' Cherry Tree Class ' as they had been ' cut down by Washington ').

According to Plato, her mother decided she should cut back on her skating to focus on the role.

Twice she accompanied him in tickling Elizabeth, and once held her while he cut her black gown " into a thousand pieces.

" With her kitchen knife the woman then pierces and slices open the hood of the clitoris and then begins to cut it out.

Carlotta amuses everyone with a tale of how her dramatic solo was cut from the Follies because the audience found it humorous, but somehow the number works when she sings it today (" I'm Still Here ").