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A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.
Watson paused for breath.
Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.
At the door, Dave paused to feel for the latch.
After he'd got out fresh liver for Bast, he paused to look at her crouched daintily over her dish.
On the second landing he paused to look for Docherty, didn't see him, and accepted a glass of champagne.
A man, lighting a match for his cigar, paused until the flame burned his fingers.
As he left the bandstand to return to his office, the slender, sun-tanned Chief Executive paused along the way to shake hands with the members of the audience in wheel chairs forming the first row under the field tent set up for the guests.
For example, some AM stations paused Sunday morning music programming for religious voicetracks by ministers.
Both sides paused for desultory negotiations before the war recommenced ; John's position was now stronger, thanks to confirmation that Count Baldwin of Flanders and Renaud of Boulogne had renewed the anti-French alliances they had previously agreed to with Richard.
In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent ( 26 of 40 ) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so ; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment ; some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.
In a late appearance, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climacteric battle of Issus ( 333 BC ), and resorted to prayers, " calling on Thetis, Nereus and the Nereids, nymphs of the sea, and invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves.
Sailors prayed to Poseidon for a safe voyage, sometimes drowning horses as a sacrifice ; in this way, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climactic battle of Issus, and resorted to prayers, " invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves.
At Dover he paused for a week receiving the submission of Canterbury on October 29.
During the October Revolution of 1917, upon the storming of the Winter Palace, the Bolshevik Revolution actually paused for a week or so as the rioters gorged on the substantial stores of cognac and wines.
The family paused and crossed themselves when they saw the stuffed mother bear and cubs that stood on the landing, perhaps as a sign of respect for the dead.
While accompanying Thomas Kavanaugh on his daring escape from Lucknow, he paused for a quick rattle with a local prostitute, and during the battle of Patusan, he found himself galloping one of Sharif Sahib's concubines without even realizing it.
The season paused in February for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
So programs asking for any input or output automatically paused while the operation completed, a task that normally required the operating system to handle as the arbiter of hardware.
Lake came into the audience for taped segments, and during the paused portion ( where commercial breaks were inserted ) she left the audience to consult with producers.
The match is paused for Johnny to be looked at by Kreese.
" It is said that the British General, who paused here on his way to Yorktown, remarked that this spot with its magnificent vista of the James River Valley would make an ideal site for a house.
Shortly after the 90 / 30 was introduced, Sperry Univac introduced the 90 / 25 which was the same basic hardware, however had an option for a smaller 80 column card reader and was a bit slower ( it is said, that the machine executed 3 instructions and then paused to slow it down, as nearly every component was identical to the 90 / 30 ).

paused and moment
' She paused for a moment.
The game action paused while Biggio shared the moment with his wife and children.
She recalled this person paused for a moment before turning and walking back through the door as if having forgotten something, then re-emerged and flashed a smile at her before disappearing between the buildings.
Johnstone paused to consider for a moment, then replied that he thought it would be a draw.
Much younger men .< nowiki >'</ nowiki > I paused a moment.
" Gilpin is said to have paused in thought for a moment and then responded " Nil Sine Numine ".
He paused briefly and replaced his eyeglasses, visibly moved for a moment.
It paused on a cliff-hanging moment ( as two cars were thrown out ) and invited the audience to go to SeeWhatHappens. com.

paused and look
One such problem is " laser lock ", where the player reads the same two fields for a given frame over and over again, causing the picture to look frozen as if the movie were paused.

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Pat paused there, looking across at the young fellow.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
Ignatius of Antioch also paused at this city before continuing to his martyrdom at Rome.
Some test subjects paused at 135 volts and began to question the purpose of the experiment.
Chorus included features to allow any " properly written " server to be restarted at any time, with clients using those servers being paused while the server brought itself back into its original state.
If no range is specified, the stream is played from the beginning and plays to the end, or, if the stream is paused, it is resumed at the point it was paused.
While flying Endeavour's last mission, the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-20 departed from the ISS and paused at a distance of 200 meters.
On 15 and 29 November 1916, as the Battle of the Somme paused, Sir Douglas Haig met Général d ' Armée Joffre and the other Allies at Chantilly.
Ford's went up Pennsylvania Avenue because it paused at the White House en route to the Washington National Cathedral, where the funeral was held.
The terms of peace having been read, Elepoo the senior commissioner paused, expecting something more, and at length said " is that all?
When Hepburn paused in speech and realized that everyone was looking at her, she asked what was the matter and Hawks asked her if she was finished imitating a parrot.
As Fonyo had, Hansen paused at the spot Fox's run ended to honour the late runner.
As rose to leave he paused at the door, and turning said with much deliberation, " You young gentlemen have entertained me royally, and in return I will give you a priceless secret.
On January 16, 2006, during his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Syriana, Clooney paused to sarcastically thank disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff before adding, " Who would name their kid Jack with the word ‘ off ’ at the end of your last name?
With the two brothers at the head of the army, the Vandal force paused on the way to Carthage to destroy the great aqueduct which supplied the city with most of its water.
Films can be paused or restarted at will.

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