As he crossed to the side of the stall, Curt drew his gun and clicked back the hammer.

He backed Jess into a corner, grabbed a handful of the man's shirtfront, and drew back his right fist.

The straight, black hair flopped in a vigorous nod, the slender nose plunged toward glass teeth and drew safely back.

I drew back, drawing back my foot for a kick.

He fisted the knife overhand, and drew back to plunge it into the kid's throat.

In the silence that followed, Miriam walked close to Mrs. Cupply, who drew back a step on her side of the gate.

He drew back, embarrassed and pleased.

Ulyate drew back with a start, and put finger to lips, almost afraid to move or whisper lest it set her off, `` The dogs have got her bayed.

Mrs. Gertrude Parker drew back.

Everyone stared at me and drew back.

I drew back.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent cartridge which then dropped to the ground.

When he made a request for her to draw a weeping boy, Anguissola drew Boy Bitten by a Crayfish and sent it back to Michelangelo, who immediately recognized her talent.

In preparation for his role, Bridges met Dowd but actually " drew on myself a lot from back in the Sixties and Seventies.

When Thompson climbed back on board, Johnson drew a knife and threatened Thompson's girlfriend, who was also on board.

This drew support from anti-prohibitionists, who saw it as an opportunity to roll back prohibition in some areas, and as the only alternative available to the total prohibition which the Republican Party advocated.

But when he found that the latter could do more to disturb the peace of the Church than Berengar's friends, he drew back.

The song's success drew Simon back to the United States to reunite with Garfunkel.

With the Cairoli dead, command was assumed by John Tobacco who had retreated back with the remaining volunteers into the villa, where they continued to fire at the papal soldiers, which drew back in the evening and retired to Rome.

According to one witness, Holliday drew a " large bronze pistol " ( interpreted by some as Virgil's coach gun ) from under his long coat and shoved it into Frank McLaury's belly, then took a couple of steps back.

The goat and Loki drew one another back and forth, both squealing loudly.

When Gustave Courbet drew a crayon illustration for The Black Arm ( 1856 ), a pantomime by Fernand Desnoyers written for another mime, Paul Legrand ( see next section ), the Pierrot who quakes with fear as a black arm snakes up from the ground before him is clearly a child of the Pierrot in The Ol ’ Clo's Man.

The arrow hit Guan Yu's arm and wounded him, but Guan drew the arrow from the wound and proceeded to kill Han Fu.

His 6 ' 3 " frame, strong arm, and unusual ability to hit balls out of the strike zone drew attention at a Dodgers training camp.

Francisco, finding so favorable an opportunity to recover his liberty, stepped one pace in his rear, drew the sword with force from under his arm, and instantly gave him a blow across the scull.

As a result, he drew his forehead protector on his arm in order to not obscure his hair.

He struck Baldwin on the arm and made him drop the knife, and Baldwin drew the shotgun, which Douglas grabbed hold of to prevent it from being pointed at him.

He was lapped by the leaders after just seven laps of the race, and after fourteen he retired from the race with cramp in his left arm-but this drew paddock wide criticism as Estoril is a clockwise circuit, which requires more work from the right arm, and English F1 journalist Nigel Roebuck made scathing comments about Délétraz's performance in the race.

A repaint of the Decepticon figure released at the same time named Hooligan -- and consequently erroneously decorated with Decepticon symbols -- this figure bore some physical resemblance to his original ( unarmored ) self, although his color scheme and missile launcher arm drew attention away from his familiar shape.

The battle raged on until Tsuna drew his katana and severed the arm of the demon.

As Tong approached the vehicle, Suchan drew a. 455 pistol and shot him and Sergeant Perry in the police car, wounding the latter in the arm.

Monaldo drew his sword to strike his niece, but his arm allegedly dropped to his side, withered and useless.

The king, who drew Jewish settlers from across Europe to his country, built several castles along western border of Lesser Poland, with the most notable ones in Skawina, Pieskowa Skała, Będzin, Lanckorona, Olkusz, Lelów, Bobolice, Krzepice, Ogrodzieniec, Ojców, Olsztyn, Bobolice, Mirów ( see also Eagle Nests Trail ).

The Athenian Empire, although based in the peninsula of Attica, spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea ; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands.

He drew with great art and accuracy, across the colures, five other circles called parallels, which, from one pole to the other, divided the half of the sphere into thirty parts.

) The call drew support from all across the country: 38, 000 volunteers jammed registration centers.

The move, however, was a strategic blunder, as it drew the ire of many warlords across the land, including Yuan Shu's own subordinate Sun Ce, who had advised Yuan Shu not to make such a move.

A detailed analysis of voting demographics revealed that Perot's support drew heavily from across the political spectrum, with 20 % of his votes coming from self-described liberals, 27 % from self-described conservatives, and 53 % coming from self-described moderates.

Gollancz often claimed to be a Christian, although he was never baptised and his understanding of the religion was a highly idiosyncratic one, overall his personal syncretic faith drew on Pelagian Christianity, Judaism, and wide-ranging reading across religious traditions.

The boundary was defined in broad terms by the Franco-British Boundary Agreement of December 1920, which drew it across the middle of the lake.

During this series, several Hurricanes fan traditions drew hockey-wide media attention for the first time: fans met the team at the airport on the return from every road trip, and echoed football-season habits honed for games across the parking lot by hosting massive tailgate parties before each home game, a relative novelty in the cold-weather-centric NHL.

Slipping across the Somme, Edward drew up to give battle at Crécy.

As the Revolution drew near, the factory produced shot, cannonballs, and perhaps most importantly, the chain which stretched across the Hudson River at West Point.

The town drew its name from the location of a ford across the Schuylkill River, which happened to be adjacent to land owned by the Royer family.

The mammoth steel bridge that was built across the Columbia drew many laborers to the area, and the small town boomed.

For the first half of the century, the timber industry provided the city and Valley with a stable source of income and employment, even as World War I drew away workers and the Great Depression took its toll across the nation.

Pacifica also produced Informed Dissent, a ten-week series for the 2006 mid-term elections that drew from talent across the network.

Observing in the studio a panel Protogenes had prepared for a painting, Apelles walked over to the easel, and taking up a brush told the servant to tell Protogenes " this came from me ," and drew in colour an extremely fine line across the panel.

Prodi's new cabinet drew in politicians from across his centre-left winning coalition, in addition to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, an unelected former official of the European Central Bank with no partisan membership.

During a 1990s television interview, when asked what had happened to the sentry who spotted her, Wake simply drew her finger across her throat.

Aberhart's Sunday broadcasts proved as popular as his Bible studies as they drew regular listeners across the Canadian mid-west, and some listeners in the northern United States.

It corresponds particularly well with Columbus's notion of the Earth, and makes the notion of a jump across that little Ocean Sea to the Far East irresistible ; he and Behaim drew their information from the same sources.

Jagadguru Swami Sathyananda Saraswathi, the renowned spiritual teacher reckoned as the greatest karmayogi to uphold Sanatana Dharma since Swami Vivekananda drew inspiration from the Guru's life and teachings and popularised it through his long oratories across the length and breadth of Kerala. He can be regarded as a political successor of the guru who enshrined the guru's vision in the setting up of Hindu Aikya Vedi uniting all the Hindu organisations in Kerala under the aegis of a single organisation brushing aside caste distinctions and uniting the two major groups of Hindus in the state, respectively the savarna Nairs and Ezhavas. As Noted by

One commenter to The Times, Stephen Trimble, a 2008 – 2009 Wallace Stegner Fellow at the University of Utah's Tanner Humanities Center, drew attention to the broader Utah birthday tribute to Stegner through leading conversations about Stegner ’ s work in communities across Utah.

Her nationwide speaking tour regarding the intervention in Libya " Eyewitness Libya ", which was sponsored by the ANSWER coalition and the International Action Center drew hundreds across the country.

To prevent White Russian army from crossing into the newly established states, the British commander in the region drew a line across the Caucasus that Denikin would not be permitted to cross, giving both Georgia and Azerbaijan a temporary relief.