When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The Mercers took up residence in Brooklyn, and Mercer found a regular job in Wall Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds ''.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

Another force flanked the company and took up a position on a hill to the rear.

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

My man, he won't be around a little while, he just fixed me up with this stuff they took out of the Elite.

Madden took up this point with Garth, who shrugged it off.

He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.

He took up a white sheet of paper, dark with single-spaced data.

Meanwhile, fishermen took advantage of them to pull up whoppers.

Kimmell ordered the driver to back up, watched the children safely across and was approaching the car when it suddenly `` took off at high speed '', he said, narrowly missing him.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

Sometimes she took the path that winds up around my cottage to the walk at the edge of the cliff.

In Tokyo Richard took up a life similar to that which he had lived in New York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a friend.

It took him a few seconds to put his thoughts in order, and then he got up from the bunk where he had been resting, sleeplessly.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

It seems that the Greeks took advantage of the observations of some older civilizations in the East and managed to work them up rationally.

In April 1834, Johnston took up farming in Texas, but enlisted as a private in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence against the Republic of Mexico in 1836.

Pillow took up a position at nearby Clarksville, Tennessee and did not move into the fort itself until February 7, 1862.

Like many other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readily took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the Americans took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.

" His mother was a gifted embroiderer and took up painting at the age of 75.

In the 1770s his eyesight weakened and he took to painting in pastels, a medium in which he executed portraits of his wife and himself ( see Self-portrait at top right ).

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

He took oil painting lessons from Sully and met Charles Bonaparte, who admired his work and recommended he go to Europe to have his bird drawings engraved.

Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in both his teaching and painting — particularly the circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves.

The roots of ukiyo-e can be traced to the urbanization that took place in the late 16th century that led to the development of a class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories or novels, and painting pictures, compiled in ehon ( 絵本, picture books, books with stories and picture illustrations ), such as the 1608 edition of Tales of Ise by Hon ' ami Kōetsu.

Though most of his sons became portrait painters, some of them took up still life painting or architectural studies and landscapes.

However the painting was not finished until six years after his death, in 1432, so the degree to which the surviving altarpiece reflects his work, rather than that of Jan who took it over, remains much discussed.

Von Kulmbach then apprenticed with Albrecht Dürer and after Dürer retired from painting altarpieces in 1510 Kulmbach took over most of his commissions.

Seurat took to heart the color theorists ' notion of a scientific approach to painting.

It took Seurat two years to complete this painting, much of which he spent in the park sketching in preparation for the work ( there are about 60 studies ).

To realize his true vision, Barker and his son, Henry Aston Barker, took on the task of painting a scene of the Albion Mills.

This restoration took 21 years and on May 28, 1999 the painting was put back on display, although intending visitors are required to book ahead and can only stay for 15 minutes.

To relieve the situation, he took to painting and selling copies he made at the Louvre and finally moved to cheaper quarters.

Educated in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the University Philosophical Society John Butler Yeats began his career as a lawyer and devilled briefly with Isaac Butt before he took up painting in 1867 and studied at Heatherley's Art School.

The restorers, by assuming that the artist took a universal approach to the painting, took a universal approach to the restoration.

In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $ 68 million, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn: he produced a series of paintings based on the nude glamour photos in French " girlie " magazines like Paris Sex-Appeal, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting.

It took well over a year to complete the painting.

In 1995, Summer and her family moved from Sherman Oaks, California to Nashville, Tennessee, where she took time out from show business to focus on painting, a hobby she began back in the 1980s.

Garfield took morning classes and began volunteering time at the Lab after hours, auditing rehearsals, building and painting scenery, and doing crew work.

Harpo also took an interest in painting, and a few of his works can be seen in his autobiography.

Meanwhile, Owen Merton was off traveling and painting and attending an exhibition of his work in London, but in the summer of 1928 he took Merton out of the Lycée Ingres, informing him that they were headed together to England.