Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.

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

With great difficulty John clambered to his feet and started to run, sweat pouring down his face.

As a matter of fact, Fogg and his plane didn't get beyond Pennsylvania in the race -- an engine oil leak forced him down -- but the flying service and school he started subsequently were first steps in paying off his wry-faced backers.

Marty faced east and started walking down the left side of the road.

Roberts brushed at his eyes with his free hand and started down the steps.

Phil started to take his clothes off and Frankie sat down on the bench again.

He put down his pipe and started to type.

On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel.

For it was here you started to go down the island, in summer.

The topic became disputable as soon as most potent counter-tactical ABMs started to be capable of shooting down SLBMs ( SLBMs naturally tend to be much slower than ICBMs ), nevertheless both sides continued counter-tactical ABM development.

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

When the Polish words and melodies started to become popular, including many new secular pastorals ( pastoralka, or shepherd's songs ), they were not written down originally, but rather taught among people by heart.

However her stability had begun to break down as she travelled at speed she had never achieved before, and the front of the boat started to bounce out of the water on the starboard side.

It is believed that authority and the grace of God is directly passed down to Orthodox bishops and clergy through the laying on of hands — a practice started by the apostles, and that this unbroken historical and physical link is an essential element of the true church ( Acts 8: 17, 1 Tim 4: 14, Heb 6: 2 ).

The Æsir started to fear that they would not be able to bind Fenrir, and so Odin sent Freyr's messenger Skírnir down into the land of Svartálfaheimr to " some dwarfs " and had them make a fetter called Gleipnir.

Magellan had started out in Spain with five ships but by the time they reached the Marianas they were down to three ships and lost close to half their crew.

Other gags focused on Jon's poor social skills and inability to get a date ; before he started dating Liz, he often tried to get dates, usually without success ( in one strip, after failing to get a date with " Nancy ", he tried getting a date with her mother and grandmother ; he ended up getting " shot down by three generations ".

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.

Hugh III's authority on the mainland began to break down ; he was an unpopular king, and Beirut, the only territory left outside of Acre and Tyre, started to act independently.

As his marriage with Protima began to break down he famously started a relationship with Parveen Dosanjh.

She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.

According to Dean DeLeo, steps toward a Stone Temple Pilots reformation started with a simple phone call from Weiland's wife, Mary Forsberg.

In the beginning of their set, Jordan Rudess ' keyboard started playing half steps every fourth key.

You see, all that has happened is that Gary and I started something, it was taken away, and we have taken steps to get it back .” In the same interview, Dudley indicated she felt parts of Who's Afraid were of dubious quality.

A function is time-constructible if there exists a deterministic Turing machine such that for every, if the machine is started with an input of n ones, it will halt after precisely steps.

In opposition to her conservative opponent Nawaz Sharif whose policy was to make the nuclear weapons programme benefit the economy, Benazir Bhutto took aggressive steps and decisions to modernize and expand the integrated atomic weapons programme founded and started by her father in 1972, was one of the key political administrative figures of Pakistan's nuclear deterrent development.

On the other hand, non-fungible tasks tend to be highly serial in nature and require the completion of earlier steps before later steps can even be started.

The government took some limited steps towards the liberalisation of the market, started a privatisation program through management employee buyouts and sought to further relations with the Euro-Atlantic structures ( the EEC / EU and the NATO ).

In that club he started his first steps in amateur divisions and as professional.

The first steps towards light metal production came in 1940 when Hydro started construction of a magnesium carbonate plant at Herøya, but the German invasion of Norway stopped the plans.

He started his Anaheim career by falling down the visitor's dugout steps on his first play of his first game, badly spraining his ankle.

In the second half of 1920s, the canonical Russian Orthodox Church started making steps toward some form of rapprochement with the Soviet regime.

Maurice Yaméogo started his political career as the general counsellor of Koudougou before reaching, after several steps, the Presidency.

O ' Neill took his first steps into rock music in the 1970s when he started the progressive rock band Slowburn, for whom he was the lyricist and co-composer.

I have made my own path and started to take my own steps.

As for Michel Ducros, at Fauchon, he follows into the steps of his predecessor in terms of the brand image, its renewal started in 1998 with the introduction of the first advertising campaigns in 1999, the renovation of the stores, the new packaging, and the marketing efforts.

When African Americans started being admitted to the University of Texas, however, he took steps to insure that none were in his classes.

As dean of Peterborough, Richard Fletcher, at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay " knelt down on the scaffold steps and started to pray out loud and at length, in a prolonged and rhetorical style as though determined to force his way into the pages of history ".

She is a very talented ballet dancer ( and also a skilled pianist ) who has just started to take the necessary steps to develop her skills into a career, after graduating early from her Catholic high school and moving to New York City.

However, no commission recommendations specifically call for increased drug use and the commission did call for closer scrutiny of psychiatric drug treatment, months before the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) started taking these steps in the wake of reports of increased rates of suicide, especially during the first months of drug use.

Television in Czechoslovakia started to take its first steps before World War II.