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In a decorated room within a grand residence, a draped ' cadaver ' rested on a plinth which was then ritually stabbed by an ' executioner ' while a ' service ' was read consisting of extracts from the French décadent writer Joris-Karl Huysmans and le Marquis de Sade.
It was then announced that Hedd Wyn had been killed the previous month on the battlefield in Belgium, and the bardic chair was draped in black.
The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves ' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.
A human model ( often Parrish himself ) would then pose for a photograph with this cloth draped naturally on his or her body in a manner which intentionally distorted the pattern.
The most common style is for the sari to be wrapped around the waist, with one end then draped over the shoulder, baring the midriff.
The cloth is first draped over the left shoulder, then arranged to cover the body.
On the February 6, 1993 airing of Superstars, Duggan succeeded in knocking Yokozuna down, only for Yokozuna to then sneak attack Duggan and crush him with four Banzai Drops, the fourth being with the American flag draped over Duggan.
We then see a woman, draped in flowing gauze, wandering though the forest, carrying the baby wrapped in a blanket.
The locals then placed his body in a makeshift coffin, draped it in a French tricolour they found in his house, and buried him in the cemetery at nearby Sant Vicent de sa Cala.
Their skulls, still draped in bloody flesh and then coated with a preservation polymer, had been hollowed out and fitted with glowglobes, so that an unsettling ghoulish light shone through the eye sockets, mouths, and nostrils.
Designs are first sketched out and approved, then either draped on a form or a pattern drafted.
A white cloth is then draped over the door.
Muhammad then draped it with a white Yemeni cloth.
Since then, the blocks have risen to emerge as tall domed structures draped in pieces of the sea floor.
Miss Elizabeth then ran to the ring and draped herself over Savage, attempting to prevent Roberts from harming him any further.
began stroking it, then collapsed in the middle of the ring with the snake draped over his body and tried to kiss it with his tongue.

then and him
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.
The man shoved him into the water, then ran past the cabana.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.
Her scream split up the silence of the car, accompanied by the rattling of the freight, and then Cappy came off the floor, his legs driving him hard.
And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.
I wouldn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, then he'd come around with the completed lyric ''.
`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.
Blackman arrived a day or two early, and Lewis took him to a department store immediately and outfitted him, luggage and all, and then he took him to a party at the Woodwards that went on until four in the morning.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
Lewis warned him never to lay a hand on him, and then Blackman asked for his fare back to the United States.
Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.
John then allowed him to come.
Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.
The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.
If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

then and over
Swinging up then, and bending forward over the horn, he urged his mount down the meandering draw.
It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.
Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.
The nation-state, then, exemplifies the principle of nationalism and exercises sovereignty: supreme power over domestic affairs and independence from outside control.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
`` You could come down to the office once a day, look over a few exchanges, dictate an editorial, and then have the remainder of your time for your more serious literary labors.
Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.
The clock on the mantel piece was scandalized and ticked so loudly that he glanced at it over his shoulder and then quickly left the room.
He improvised as he went along, completing a life-size clay figure, then bought yards of an inexpensive material from a draper, wet the lightweight cloth in a basin and covered it over with clay that Argiento brought from the bank of the Tiber, to the consistency of thick mud.
Since then, the flowers she had planted had spread all over the hill.
Many people think that pansies last only a few weeks, then their period of growth and bloom is over.
She then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.
Set the apples in the pastry-lined tin, spread over them three tablespoonfuls of softened butter, with as much brown sugar, a sprinkling of nutmeg, and a fresh bay leaf, then lay on a cover of pastry, and gild it with beaten yolk of egg.
Another method of assuring a clean hole is to first drill a small pilot hole all the way through, then drill half way with the dimensional bit, turn the piece over, and finish from the other side.
He then pushes his seat into the air and the teacher guides it over.
Without further discussion he appeared the next morning with a pile of boards sticking over the end of his light truck and proceeded with the paneling, which he then stained and waxed according to his taste.
then a couple of fluorescent lamps over the workbench an' I guess we're about through down here ''.
Moreland went over to stare at his peacocks again, and then came back and sat down, restively.
After blotting out most of the saline around the sections, a drop of Af was layered over each of the sections, allowed to react for 30 minutes, and then washed with PBS for 15 - 30 minutes.
The purpose set forth at the beginning of this book was first to introduce the reader to a general background knowledge of the various types and capabilities of the forecasting methods already in use, so that he might then be in a position to evaluate for himself the validity of the rather astonishing empirical correlation that is to follow, and to appraise the forecast that its interpretation suggests for the future of farm prices over the years immediately ahead.
The research team prepared and then revised the questionnaire over a period of six months.
The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.
Near the end of his service he wrote that when the war was over he was going to buy two pups, name one of them `` Fall-in '' and the other `` Close-up '', and then shoot them both, `` and that will be the end of Fall-in and Close-up ''.

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