A bold line of violet broke loose from the high ridge of the mountains, followed by feathers of red that swept the last stars from the sky.

Two minutes later it came again -- a double explosion, followed by a third, sounding more distant.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

Blenheim was followed in rapid succession by Ramillies And The Union With Scotland and by The Peace And The Protestant Succession, the three forming together a detailed picture of England under Queen Anne.

The fall of Rome, the discovery of precious metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all links and could only be explained and understood by comprehending the links that preceded and those that followed.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

In defiance, a chinless reprobate, Jake Camaret, marched down the aisle in St. Peter's one Sunday morning, followed by one of the women from the Bordel, whose dress and walk plainly showed the lack of any shame.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

With that he hurried up the stairs, followed by her suspicious gaze.

And, if we follow the Rayburn pattern, as consciously or by an instinctual political sense I like to think I have followed it, then the very nature of our loyalty to our own immediate areas must necessarily be reflected in the devotion of our services to our country.

New York led in the number of inquiries, followed by California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.

Therefore, civil defense instructions received over CONELRAD or by other means should be followed.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

During these years the company's product line followed the basic tenets laid down by Mr. Brown.

Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now-famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or `` pushing '' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a `` pulling '' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.

It doesn't really matter which month of the year you sow them, but they germinate best when they have a wide variation of temperature, very warm followed by cool in the same 24 hours.

However, rather than issuing the writ immediately and waiting for the return of the writ by the custodian, modern practice in England is for the original application to be followed by a hearing with both parties present to decide the legality of the detention, without any writ being issued.

Subsequent emperors followed his lead, sometimes producing lavish ceremonies to close the Gates of Janus, issuing coins with Pax on the reverse, and patronizing literature extolling the benefits of the Pax Romana.

Britain did this by issuing the 1939 white paper which officially allowed a further 75, 000 Jews to move over five years ( 10, 000 a year plus an additional 25, 000 ) which was to be followed by Arab majority independence.

Street & Smith countered by issuing a smaller format weekly with muted colors Such titles as New Nick Carter Weekly ( continuing the original black and white Nick Carter Library ), Tip-Top Weekly ( introducing Frank Merriwell ) and others were 7 x 10 with thirty-two pages of story, but the 8. 5 x 11 Tousey format carried the day and Street & Smith, soon followed suit.

The dispute deteriorated into a physical altercation with the site foreman, followed by Bielsa issuing a statement criticising the work-which the club hierarchy officially distanced themselves from.

On September 9, Barros Sierra issues a statement to the students and teachers to return to class as “ our institutional demands … have been essentially satisfied by the recent annual message by the Citizen President of the Republic .” This was followed by the CNH issuing a paid announcement in the newspaper El Día for the Silent March on September 13 and inviting “ all workers, farmers, teachers, students, and the general public ” to participate in the march.

On June 21, 1948 the Deutsche Mark ( German Mark ) was introduced by the Bank deutscher Länder in the western zones of occupation in Germany ; the Deutsche Emissions-and Girobank ( German bank of issue and giro centre ) of the Soviet zone followed suit on June 23, 1948, issuing its own Deutsche Mark ( colloquially referred to as the East German Mark or Ostmark ), later officially called " Mark der Deutschen Notenbank " ( 1964 – 1967 ) and then " Mark der DDR " ( 1968 – 1990 ), through to the adoption in reunified Germany of the euro in 1999, with Germany minting its own German euro coins and using the unified Euro banknotes used all over the Eurozone of the 21st century.

In recent issues, ' East Touch ' has followed the practice of other trend magazines by issuing a small booklets on selected high-fashion labels.

Not until after the pandemonium that followed is he told that it was not actually a simulation: Instead of taking on Rackham in what they had thought was a long series of simulations, he and his jeesh had been unknowingly issuing orders to real ships in real combat.

This is followed by King Acorn issuing Robotnik as his new Warlord.

Though crushed, however, they were not extinguished ; a period of anarchy followed, the struggle between the Chola kings and the Mussulmans issuing in the establishment at Kanchi of an usurping Hindu dynasty which ruled till the end of the 14th century, while in 1365 a branch of the Pandyas succeeded in re-establishing itself in part of the kingdom of Madura, where it survived till 1623.

They began by issuing an album of the 1946 revival of Show Boat followed by the original Broadway cast of Finian's Rainbow in 1947.

During the Second World War, the Coast Guard followed suit with the Navy and began issuing enlistment bars engraved with the number of a subsequent Good Conduct award.

In 1971, along with the rest of the British Isles, Guernsey decimalized, with the pound subdivided into 100 pence, and began issuing a full range of coin denominations from ½p to 50p (£ 1 and £ 2 coins followed later ).

Simultaneously, the bank began issuing more notes than it could represent in coinage ; this led to an economic inflation, which was eventually followed by a bank run when the value of the new paper currency was halved.

All that is followed by a fixed-length number ( 4 to 6 digits, but same size for the same issuing authority ).

In 1938, Decca began releasing record sleeves with cover artwork ; other innovations such as liner notes and Broadway cast albums followed ( although Jack Kapp pioneered this practice in 1933 by recording the entire " Blackbirds of 1928 " and " Showboat " scores and issuing them in album sets ).

Following the success of Garbage's James Bond theme " The World Is Not Enough " in Germany ( where it reached # 38 ) and across Europe, BMG Ariola followed up by issuing " When I Grow Up " as the sixth German single from Version 2. 0 on March 6, 2000.

Only 4, 000 inhabitants remained in the city ; the rest had followed evacuation orders.

Furthermore, not all of his captains had followed his orders to attach cables to their neighbour's bow and stern, which would have prevented such a manoeuvre.

Eisenhower followed the orders laid down by the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ) in directive JCS 1067, but softened them by bringing in 400, 000 tons of food for civilians and allowing more fraternization.

It was determined that Powers had followed orders, had not divulged any critical information to the Soviets, and had conducted himself “ as a fine young man under dangerous circumstances .”

In 1911, Washington wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular crops at the experiment station This revealed Washington's micro-management of Carver's department, which he had headed for more than 10 years by then.

It followed on the heels of the 1952 show trials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the secret execution of thirteen members on Stalin's orders in the Night of the Murdered Poets.

These teachings had more important results upon the orders and their possessions in Bohemia, where the instructions of the " Evangelical master " were followed to the letter in such a way that the noble foundations and practically the whole of the property of the Church were sacrificed.

The first military orders of knighthood were the Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar ( 1119 ).

On May 30, 1925, police from the International Settlement in Shanghai followed the orders of a British policeman and opened fire on a group of protesters, killing 10 and wounding 50.

The branching sequence of marsupial orders indicated by the study puts Didelphimorphia in the most basal position, followed by Paucituberculata, then Microbiotheria, and ending with the radiation of Australian marsupials.

BBN's system was quickly followed by orders from Lawrence Livermore and Atomic Energy of Canada ( AECL ), and eventually 53 PDP-1s were delivered until production ended in 1969.

The Great Purge of the Red Army followed on Stalin's orders.

The Austrian emperor brought in the Counter-Reformation by encouraging Catholic orders to settle in Breslau, starting in 1610 with the Minorites, followed by Jesuits, Capucins, Franciscans and finally Ursulines in 1687.

* April 22 – The vicar on Ven is dismissed: he had followed Tycho's orders not to perform an exorcism.

The Romanian troops, who the day before had followed Ceausescu's orders to attack the demonstrators, change sides and join the uprising.

The demonstration showing cattle restrained by the new kind of fencing was followed immediately by invitations to the Menger Hotel to place orders.

Prince George followed suit that night, and in the evening of the following day James issued orders to place Sarah Churchill under house arrest at St James's Palace.

At an Arab League summit in August 1962, Nasser pulled out his delegation after arguments with Syria, which wanted the dismissal of the organization's secretary-general, Abdel Khalek Hassouna, complaining that he only followed Nasser's orders.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

Wu Hu herdsmen saw no reason to obey orders from the Jin court and widespread uprisings soon followed.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

Fleetwood followed Lambert with reinforcements and orders to advance north towards the Teme.

He took pole at the French Grand Prix and closely followed Prost, team orders preventing him from seriously challenging for the win.

Manetti, followed by Vasari, named the Florentine architect and sculptor Bernardo Rossellino as the person responsible for a series of building projects carried out throughout the Papal States at the orders of Pope Nicholas and his name is usually associated with the project in Viterbo.