Leaving the card room, they moved back through the Palace the way they had come.

He moved back to the wheel and stood there blowing, grasping the top of a spoke to still the trembling of his played-out limbs.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

He looked disapprovingly at an ash tray piled high with cigarette stubs, shook his head, and moved his hand back and forth in a strong negative gesture.

The crowd moved back and John started dizzily down the hill.

There were times now, like this, when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations.

They moved in a series of rhythmic fits and starts, a macabre dance -- two steps back, two steps forward, two steps back.

`` It's like banging a shin '', he said, his eyes lingered on Nick's face, then moved back to Elaine.

End Gene Raesz, who broke a hand in the Owl's game with LSU, was back working out with Rice Monday, and John Nichols, sophomore guard, moved back into action after a week's idleness with an ankle injury.

A similar proportion, when moved experimentally a distance of, found their way back to their home base.

While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.

If the anchor continues to drag, or sets after having dragged too far, it should be retrieved and moved back to the desired position ( or another location chosen.

Alcott and his family moved back to Concord after 1857, where he and his family lived in the Orchard House until 1877.

It moved back in with the Kanda station after the station was destroyed in the bombing of Tokyo in World War II.

Krogstad is moved and offers to take back his letter to Torvald.

Facing the Chancellery is the Bundestag, the German Parliament, housed in the renovated Reichstag building since the government moved back to Berlin in 1998.

For example, a singles player may hold his racquet ready for a netshot, but then flick the shuttlecock to the back instead with a shallow lift when she or he notices the opponent has moved before the actual shot was played.

With support from Colonel Blood's batteries, the Hessian, Hanoverian and Dutch infantry – now commanded by Count Berensdorf – succeeded in pushing the French and Irish infantry back into Oberglauheim so that they could not again threaten Churchill's flank as he moved against Tallard.

Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk.

The armour on the horses was weaker on the sides and back, so the archers moved to the sides of the cavalry and shot the horses in the flanks.

In 1962 the Duveen Gallery was finally restored and the Parthenon Sculptures were moved back into it, once again at the heart of the museum.

Having lived a lavish lifestyle in California, Wills moved back to Oklahoma City in 1949, then went back on the road to maintain his payroll and Wills Point.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.

The son of a potter who had moved to Syracuse in about 343 BC, he learned his father's trade, but afterwards entered the army.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia.

The Batavi ( the name is believed to derive from a West Germanic root also present in " better " ( possibly meaning " superior men ")) moved into the Betuwe in the late 1st century BC.

A part of them later moved to Mycenae around 1600 BC and founded the Mycenaean civilisation there.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Cushitic language-speaking people from northern Africa moved into the area that is now Kenya beginning around 2000 BC.

Theopompus moved back to Chios with the other exiles in 333 BC after Alexander had invaded Asia Minor and decreed their return, as well as the exile or trial of Persian supporters on the island.

The year used in dates during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire was the consular year, which began on the day when consuls first entered office – probably 1 May before 222 BC, 15 March from 222 BC to 154 BC, but this event was moved to 1 January in 153 BC.

The funds were partly drawn from the treasury of the Delian League, which was moved from the Panhellenic sanctuary at Delos to the Acropolis in 454 BC.

The Kingdom of Sri Lanka moved to Anuradhapura in 380 BC, during the reign of Pandukabhaya.

As a response to Meroe's incursions into Upper Egypt, a Roman army moved south and razed Napata in 23 BC.

Tribes of horse-breeding Iranian Scythians drifted into the territory of Turkmenistan at about 2000 BC, possibly from the Russian steppes and moved along the outskirts of the Karakum desert into Iran, Syria, and Anatolia.

Due to the precession of Earth's rotational axis, Thuban was the naked-eye star closest to the north pole from 3942 BC, when it moved farther north than Theta Boötis, until 1793 BC, when it was superseded by Kappa Draconis.

The Babylonian calendar as it stood in the 7th century BC assigned each month to a sign, beginning with the position of the Sun at vernal equinox, which, at the time, was depicted as the Aries constellation (" Age of Aries "), for which reason the first sign is still called " Aries " even after the vernal equinox has moved away from the Aries constellation due to the slow precession of the Earth's axis of rotation.

* 454 BC: The treasury of the Delian League is moved from Delos to Athens.

* 1300 BC: The legendary King Pangeng moved the capital of Shang Dynasty to Yin.

The capital was moved eastward in 770 BC from Haojing to Chengzhou.

According to some writers, Bactria was the homeland of Indo-European tribes who moved south-west into Iran and into North-Western India around 2500 – 2000 BC.