Whenever a fly bit Huston or me, it dropped dead.

Birds dropped dead when they flew too close to the tower.

On the seventh night after the event, with lightning, throwing sparks, the corpse of her husband stood before the woman who dropped dead of fright.

Homer only calls in Hud after some of the cattle in the herd have simply dropped dead, without obvious cause.

Having dislodged his early revolutionary and strictly anti-militarist views in favor of social corporatism, class collaboration and a reformist agenda involving few nationalizations but stable armed forces in order to secure neutrality, Hansson reluctantly agreed to a single-party government but dropped dead from a heart attack in Stockholm on 6 October 1946 while stepping off a tram at the Ålstens Gård station.

The RAF and American AAF dropped two million tons of high explosives bombs on 60 German cities, killing more than half a million citizens ( many of them prisoners forced to work in German munitions factories ), and leaving 80, 000 airmen dead.

Survivors said the gas at first smelled of sweet apples ; they said people died in a number of ways, suggesting a combination of toxic chemicals ( some of the victims " just dropped dead " while others " died of laughing "; while still others took a few minutes to die, first " burning and blistering " or coughing up green vomit ).

After giving this information, Fa-shan immediately dropped dead at the Emperor's feet.

As her niece, Gloria Vanderbilt, recalled, " She dropped dead on Seventy-third and Lexington on her way to see the doctor.

Just as these meagre supplies are almost exhausted, another couple — the husband dead, the wife alive — are dropped into the cavern.

But Waldo dropped dead on May 23 near Bangor while exploring the northern reaches of his property.

That is especially true for the millions of dead of this century, from the Armenians all the way to the victims of the Gulag Archipelago or the Cambodians who were and still are being murdered before all of our eyes-but who have still been dropped from the world's memory " In his " Postscript " of 21 April 1987, Fest wrote that in his view :" In its substance, the dispute was initiated by Ernst Nolte's question whether Hitler's monstrous will to annihilate the Jews, judging from its origin, came from early Viennese impressions or, what is more likely, from later Munich experiences, that is, whether Hitler was an originator or simply being reactive.

Tenpenny goes to trial for several felonies, but the charges are dropped for lack of evidence since all the prosecution's witnesses are either disgraced, missing, or dead.

Due to DOS development being dead the name dropped the " for Windows " title.

For example, in the opening of the first episode of the series, only the back and hand of partner Chaney, gripping the pages of a tax manual while seated at a desk, is seen after he has dropped dead of a heart attack.

After Snow White and the Prince reveal her true nature, she is invited to their wedding, where she is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes and " dance until she dropped down dead.

Leavitt's plane dropped one of the bombs that hit the Tirpitz dead centre.

Trying to emulate his victory at Avigliana Henry lead a charge into the royal camp at the head of a few horsemen, he cut his way through six ranks of infantry amidst a continued shower of shot, and fought against overwhelming numbers, until his horse dropped dead.

During the first season, a newspaper food critic ( played by Victor Buono ) dropped dead while eating Mel's chili, but it turned out that Peking Duck from a Chinese restaurant was to blame.

All weapons except the knife require ammunition, which is dropped by dead enemies or picked up in the levels.

On the eve of publication, when the edition was printed and ready for delivery, Blore dropped dead.

Corum uses the figure of forty tons of bombs dropped on Guernica, and calculates that if the figure of 1654 dead is accepted as accurate then the raid caused 41 fatalities per ton of bombs.

Calculations performed on the number of dead to the weight of bombs dropped had a profound effect on attitudes of the British government and population in the interwar years, who believed that " The bomber will always get through ".

Many of the victims dropped dead by the way and were eaten by lions.

At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

The patrol snaked around in back of the cave, approached it from above and dropped in suddenly with wild howls.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

Joe naturally ruled that a ball be dropped from alongside the spot where it had originally entered the stream.

The Commerce Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March level of more than $18.2 billion.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

Deemed too static when it was first heard in `` Lady Be Good '' in Philadelphia in 1924, it was dropped from the score.

He stole from his cabin late that night and crept out into a gusty North Pacific wind and dropped the biwa into the water.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

Suddenly he emptied his pockets of all his coins and dropped them into the box before the seated Fudo and hurried back down both stairways and away from the temple, never looking back.

Freddy's backing dropped away from him and Mr. Willis was forced to make up the deficit.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

Though he quickly dropped " Octavianus " from his name and his contemporaries referred to him as " Caesar " during this period, historians refer to him as Octavian between 44 BC and 27 BC.

Before dropping the anchor, the fishing process is reversed, and the anchor is dropped from the end of the cathead.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.

Two songs were dropped from the show, and two new Sondheim songs were added.