Two more shots followed in quick succession, dropping him limp and huddled on the ground.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

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

In a short time the officer returned and Thomas followed on his heels.

Now the riflemen and the Marylanders followed up their beginning and closed in on the British, giving them another telling round of fire.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Jessica Packard lifted her head and followed the retreating figure, her eyes resting nearly closed on the unself-conscious rise and fall of the rounded hips.

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.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

As mentioned, the primary allocation objective to be followed in the allocation of stations on clear channels is the provision of widespread service, free from destructive interference.

It should be possible to prepare very pure chlorine by oxidation of inorganic chlorides on a vacuum system followed by multiple distillation of the liquid.

These area reports will be followed, according to present plans, by a summary report, which will include a detailed statement on methods.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

It was a three-month journey in the dead of winter followed by three months of labor on Mackinac boats.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

John C. Houghton, president of the Tareytown Acres Homeowners Association, followed that by announcing plans last night for a door-to-door fund drive throughout their subdivision on behalf of the Kowalski family.

Thus there was really an excess of eighteenth-century charm as one of these light-weight pieces followed another on Saturday night.

I followed it, looking at the brilliant colors on its tubular back, the colors clear and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown diamonds the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the diamonds were set one within the other and interlaced with glistening jet-black.

Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.

It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

The actual number of species in each group depends on the taxonomic classification followed.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

Because of the game's success, a sequel followed in 1981 dubbed Asteroids Deluxe.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

This was not a success in battle, and was replaced with a very successful series of increasingly powerful turretless assault guns: the SU-76, SU-122, and the heavy SU-152, which were followed by the ISU-122 and ISU-152 on the new IS heavy tank chassis.

Capp followed this success with other allegorical fantasy critters, including the aboriginal and masochistic " Kigmies ," who craved abuse ( a story that began as a veiled comment on racial and religious oppression ), the dreaded " Nogoodniks " ( or bad shmoos ), and the irresistible " Bald Iggle ," a guileless creature whose sad-eyed countenance compelled involuntary truthfulness — with predictably disastrous results.

These were followed by another mainstream success as the vampire-next-door in the teen horror film Fright Night ( 1985 ).

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

Data General followed up on the success of the original Nova with a series of faster designs.

Further success followed in 1687 where, commanding a cavalry brigade, Eugene made an important contribution to the victory at the Battle of Mohács on 12 August.

One of the key reasons for the success of the IBM PC ( and the PC clones that followed it ) was the active ecosystem of third-party expansion cards available for the machines.

These hits were followed by the success of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, who had been one of the earliest freestyle acts.

The new-born Republic followed up on this success with a series of victories in Belgium and the Rhineland in the fall of 1792.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

The Exorcist ( 1973 ), the first of these movies, was a significant commercial success, and was followed by scores of horror films in which the Devil represented the supernatural evil, often by impregnating women or possessing children.

The Holden Commodore | Commodore premiering in 1978 followed the success of its Holden Kingswood | Kingswood forebear, becoming Holden's bestselling vehicle to date.

In-home karaoke machines soon followed but lacked success in the US and Canadian markets.

His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion.

Their following studio album Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

Dixit followed up by reuniting with Rajkumar Santoshi in the multi-starrer Lajja after the success of Pukar.

Success followed success, and today the MIPS cores are one of the most-used " heavyweight " cores in the marketplace for computer-like devices ( hand-held computers, set-top boxes, etc.

This success was followed by The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru ( 1658 ) and The History of Sir Francis Drake ( 1659 ).

But Philip achieved a great deal of success in the civil war that followed, allowing him in 1204 to be again crowned king, this time by the archbishop of Cologne.

Soderbergh followed up on the success of Out of Sight by making another crime caper, The Limey ( 1999 ), from an original screenplay by Lem Dobbs and starring veteran actors Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.

This history began with the international success of Aquarela do Brasil, by Ary Barroso, followed by Carmen Miranda ( supported by Getúlio Vargas government and the US Good Neighbor policy ), which led samba to the United States.

He followed up this minor success ( the French governor surrendered in the face of overwhelming force ) with a failed attempt to capture Guadeloupe in 1703, although he did significant economic damage before retreating.