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The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.
The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.
badness, in the only sense in which it is involved at all, waited for its appearance till I came and looked and felt.
There at the river's edge waited one Henry Greene, whom Hudson listed as a `` clerk ''.
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.
The distance between where she stood and where Dave waited at the outside door was a hundred miles.
The old man in the baggy clothes waited at the foot of the steps.
After I looked in at Francie, I went into the living room and waited.
The boy waited at the corner, with the jar of water held up to me in his hands, and the water had grown bubbly in the heat of the morning.
After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.
Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.
The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.
The Cowboys waited until Smith had retired as a player before inducting Aikman and Irvin, so all three could be inducted together, which occurred during halftime at a Monday Night Football home game against the arch-rival Washington Redskins on September 19, 2005.
Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.
Shaka waited until the column was almost at the top, then ordered his fresh reserves to make a flanking " horn " attack, sprinting down both sides of the hill to encircle and liquidate the ascending Ndwandwe.
In the neighbourhood of Larissa was celebrated a festival which recalled the Roman Saturnalia, and at which the slaves were waited on by their masters.
Acting on the information, Mary waited outside Elizabeth's room and caught her husband leaving it late at night.
They met again in October that year at Pembroke as Henry waited to cross to Ireland.
One chapter later, a Gaius from Derbe, is again named as one of Paul's seven traveling companions who waited for him at Troas ( Acts 20: 4 ).
The audience which had peaked at an estimated 400, 000 people during the festival, was now reduced to about 30 – 40, 000 by that point ; many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his show.
Santa Anna, elated at finally having the Texas Army in front of him, waited for reinforcements, which were led by General Cos. On that same day, a skirmish was fought between the enemies, mostly cavalry, but nothing came of it.
Baum's Germans left Burgoyne's camp at Fort Edward on August 9 and marched to Fort Miller, where they waited until they were joined by the Indians and a company of British marksmen.

waited and car
I waited until the parking attendant was busy with a customer, then slipped around the back of the car with license number JYM 114, attached the electronic bug to the rear bumper and walked out.
I found a parking place half a block away, sat in the car and waited.
Together we waited in her car until the hearse moved out and we followed it down into the heavy traffic of New Jersey.
Bonnie Parker waited in the getaway car on Malloy Bridge Rd.
However such was the animosity and fear between them that a mutually acceptable go-between, 28 year-old C18 member, " Catford Chris " Castle, was driven to Sargent's mobile home in Harlow, Essex, by Browning, who waited in the car, whilst Castle went to visit Sargent.
Ehrlich said Stone refused to leave his hotel room until he was given a police escort to the show and then waited in his car until the performance began.
Spector and Clarkson went inside while his driver waited outside in the car.
Bisaccia shot Oliverri to death while Gravano waited in a stolen get-away car.
The winning bidder, TVS, spent months trying to persuade Southern to sell its studios ; until it finally succeeded, TVS was forced to use portable office buildings ( known as Portakabins ) in Southern's car park, something repeated later by Meridian while it waited to take over from TVS.
In April 1975 a 3-door estate car version was added to the range: Allegros were now coming off the production line with the same conventional steering wheel as the Morris Marina, although the company waited till early June 1975 to announce, rather quietly, the demise of the Allegro's quartic steering wheel, presumably to give time for older cars to emerge from the sales and distribution network.
When a furious Stewart climbed out of his wrecked car he waited for Matt Kenseth to exit pit road.
When the job was called off and Soprano urged him to make sure it couldn't be traced to them, Moltisanti had Benny and Peter " Bissell " De La Rosa murder the hired help while he waited in his car.
Later, Richie waited for Beansie by his car, and when he went to get in, Richie rammed Beansie with his car, crushing Beansie between the two vehicles.
In the past, a car had to cross the finish line after 24 hours to be classified, which led to dramatic scenes where damaged cars waited in the pits or on the edge of the track close to the finish line for hours, then restarted their engines and crawled across the finish line one last time in order to finish after the 24 hours and be listed with a finishing distance, rather than dismissed with DNF ( Did Not Finish ).
While Galli and Christopher were inside the theater, Aaron and Nathan waited outside in a separate car to keep lookout.
The prosecution's theory was that, in a five-to ten-minute absence from the camp fire, Lindy returned to her tent, did whatever was necessary to stop her young son Aidan from following her, changed into track suit pants, took Azaria to her car, obtained and used scissors to cut Azaria's throat, waited for Azaria to die ( options were carotid arteries or jugular – all experts said there was an absence of evidence of arterial bleeding on the jump suit blood stains and it would take up to 20 minutes if the death was from cutting the jugular ), hid the body in a camera case in the car, cleaned up blood on everything including the outside of the camera case, removed the tracksuit pants, obtained baked beans for her son from the car, returned to the tent, did something to leave blood splashes there and brought her son Aidan back to the campfire without ever attracting the attention of other campers except for camper Greg Lowe who gave evidence that he observed her to go to the tent with Azaria and Aidan and then walk to the car with her left arm around Aidan and her right arm unimpeded.
At night, if a driver were to see an oncoming vehicle in the distance and was reasonably close to a passing place, the driver would flash the headlights which would signal the other car to proceed forward while either the other vehicle reversed back to a passing place, or waited beside a passing place for the other car to arrive.
Pierpont waited in the car while the other two emerged with the money and hostages.
Heffernan waited in the car.

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