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He heard their chattering, and then the sounds of hacking as they dismembered the snake right on the porch with wood axes.
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and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.
Friday night the delegates heard the need for their forthcoming program, `` Breakthrough '' scheduled to fill the churches for the next two years.
The award was made by Judge Fred B. Perkins who heard their petition without a jury by agreement of the parties.
Advertisers have discovered the tendency of Negroes to shop for brand names they have heard on stations catering to their special interests.
And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.
Elsewhere others heard and stopped and waited, the women peering from their lodges then gathering in small, curious clusters.
As she hung up, she saw through the hall's open window the purple-black flying of the cowbirds' wings, and heard their grotesque singing.
The hermit also claimed he had heard the demons complaining of the efficacy of the prayers of the faithful, and especially the monks of Cluny, in rescuing their victims.
The recordings of these bands and their songs were rarely heard or exported outside the originating countries but many can now be found on compilation albums and CDs from specialist record shops.
Nothing more was heard until summer 2009 when it was rumoured that Jackman's Seed Productions would add this to their upcoming projects with the possibility of Richard Donner directing or Jackman himself making his directing debut.
" The tagline was heard in a cameo for the Pixar film Cars, in which Tom and Ray voiced anthropomorphized vehicles ( Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, respectively a 1963 Dodge Dart V1. 0 and 1963 Dodge A100 van, as Lightning McQueen's racing sponsors ) with personalities similar to their own on-air personae.
He heard the Philistine giant Goliath challenge the Israelites to send their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat.
The BBC Radio programme, Desert Island Discs, in which guests usually choose their favourite songs, has heard 45 participants select a Dylan Thomas recording.
When his preaching companions heard of his death, all save Dominic and a very small number of others returned to their homes.
Upon presenting the painting to the convention, he said " Citizens, the people were again calling for their friend ; their desolate voice was heard: David, take up your brushes .., avenge Marat ...
" It goes on to say in verses 5-11 that when the Apostles spoke, each person in attendance " heard their own language being spoken.
heard and chattering
During breeding, the male's call is heard as an odd, striking series of loud croaks and chattering notes followed by prolonged shrieks.
Other descriptions of the call were: " A peculiar barking noise ... just like the barking of a young dog "; " Precisely the same as two men " cooeying " to each other from a distance "; " A melancholy hooting note ", or a high-pitched chattering, only heard when the birds were on the wing and generally on dark and drizzly nights or immediately preceding rain.
These same " yips " are heard when Olympic marmots are play fighting, along with low growls and chattering of teeth.
heard and then
The thin legs twitched convulsively once, then Kate felt the little body stiffening in her arms and heard one strangled sound.
It was then that they heard the tread of one descending and, in some perturbation glancing up, saw the patronne coming towards them as they gained the landing.
Phil turned away and opened his locker, and then he heard Mike Deegan say: `` You're yellow, Rossoff ''!!
During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.
The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.
Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.
At the culmination of the ensuing months-long legal dispute, he watched, as described by Sandford, " millions of dollars of his future earnings being surrendered " in what were " uniquely generous terms for Defries ", then " shut himself up in West 20th Street, where for a week his howls could be heard through the locked attic door.
This is often followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material ; further " entries " of the subject then are heard in related keys.
Mildred initially denies knowledge of what happened to Clarisse, then tells Montag exactly what happened to her: Clarisse was run over by a speeding car and, once her family heard the news about her death, they packed up and moved away, all of which happened four days ago.
It was only when he heard the applause and praise of captain Bobby Moore and then looked up and saw the ball trundling towards the advertising hoardings at the far corner, that he realised he'd managed to divert the ball over the bar – he'd known he got a touch but still assumed the ball had gone in.
* I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek, and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said " You must not miss this movie!
And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.
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