The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

" As a result he was " almost incessantly " devoted to the idea of the American Assembly, a concept which he developed into an institution by the end of 1950.

He was incessantly harassed by threats of police raids.

Guayaquil, despite being destroyed on several occasions by fire and incessantly plagued by either yellow fever or malaria, was a center of vigorous trade among the colonies, a trade that was technically illegal under the mercantilist philosophy of the contemporary Spanish rulers.

For the next five years he incessantly prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, which was met with some opposition and drama.

On the other hand, it is not too much to say that, from the end of 1759 to the end of 1761, the unshakable firmness of the Russian Empress was the one constraining political force which held together the heterogeneous, incessantly jarring elements of the anti-Prussian combination.

In the early 1930s, Raeder fought hard for increased naval budgets, lobbying politicians incessantly to argue that a strong navy was the prerequisite for Germany to become a world power.

" The New York Times on May 14, 1933, in an article wrote " a dogged resolution of almost superhuman force that kept him at work so incessantly grilling until it was finished ".

Angelica rapidly acquired several languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz, read incessantly and showed talent as a musician, but her greatest progress was in painting, and by her twelfth year she had become a notability, with bishops and nobles for her sitters.

He himself wrote incessantly in both those languages, and was styled " the modern Pindar ".

He was restless, smoked incessantly and seemed too intent on making a good impression.

Meanwhile he was incessantly writing ; and in 1667 he published his Catechism, which led to a proposal, " more acute than diplomatic ," from Baxter for union.

According to Greek mythology Echo was a Nymph who had the job of talking incessantly to Hera, the Queen of the Gods, so that her husband, Zeus, would not get caught in his numerous affairs.

With Bolingbroke he started, in December 1726, a periodical called The Craftsman, and in its pages the minister was incessantly denounced for many years.

Like many later Nigerian reggae stars, Fashek was a part of the long-running band The Mandators, who toured and recorded incessantly during the mid to late 1980s and early ' 90s.

" In 150 BC an appeal was made to Scipio by the Carthaginians to act as mediator between them and the Numidian prince Massinissa who, supported by a party at Rome, was incessantly encroaching on Carthaginian territory.

She then incessantly criticized Consort Li for her jealousy — pointing out that, if Consort Li became empress dowager, many concubines might suffer the fates of Consort Qi, Emperor Gao's favorite concubine who was tortured and killed by Emperor Gao's wife Empress Dowager Lü after Emperor Gao's death.

When Emperor Wu died, Prince He was supposed to be in a period of mourning, but he continued to hunt incessantly.

Xiongnu had been incessantly attacking the Xiyu ( central Asia ) kingdom of Wusun, whose queen was the Han princess Liu Jieyou ( 劉解憂 ).

He worked incessantly on the project, and became sleep-deprived to the point of exhaustion and was forced to take to his bed.

She was devoted to him, refused all holiday invitations because he could not live without her, and worked incessantly for him except when she broke off to read him the sporting newspapers.

The running gag was Marg's tendency to rant incessantly about each book and then stray off-topic into her political views and declaring her opinion supreme, eventually driving away her guests.

But when a board of inquiry was called to look into the charges of cowardice made against him, the men who had seen Reno leave the battlefield and the officer who had heard Reno suggest that the wounded be left to be tortured by the Sioux, refused to say a harsh word against him.

As punishment for betraying their secrets, Alhazred was tortured.

A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls.

So if a capoeirista was captured by the police, he would be unable to identify his fellow capoeiristas, even when tortured.

Cuauhtémoc was tortured by having his feet put to a fire, along with Tetlepanquetzal, the tlatoani of Tlacopán, and the Cihuacóatl ( counselor ) Tlacotzin, but even so they refused to divulge information about the treasures the Spanish coveted.

During his imprisonment, Ortega was severely tortured.

In 1193 she would tell Pope Celestine III that she was tortured by his memory.

A notable film to have emerged during this period was Ryszard Bugajski's 1982 film Interrogation ( Przesluchanie ), which depicts the story of an unfortunate woman ( played by Krystyna Janda ) who is arrested and tortured by the secret police into confessing a crime she knows nothing about.

Madero's brother and advisor Gustavo A. Madero was kidnapped off the street, tortured, and killed.

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the protests at Tiananmen Square, Lin Zhaohua staged a 1990 Hamlet in which the prince was an ordinary individual tortured by a loss of meaning.

Hesiod's Theogony and Aeschylus ' Prometheus Unbound both tell that Heracles shot and killed the eagle that tortured Prometheus ( which was his punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals ).

The most famous figure of the French resistance was Jean Moulin, sent in France by de Gaulle in order to link all resistance movements ; he was captured and tortured by Klaus Barbie ( the " butcher of Lyon ").

As punishment Khusrau Mirza was blinded, and the Sikh Guru Arjan Dev ( the fifth Sikh guru ) tortured for five days until he disappeared while taking a bath in a river — for giving the then fugitive Khusrau Mirza money when he visited Guru Arjan.

On 9 September, President Doe paid a visit to the barely established headquarters of ECOMOG in the Free Port of Monrovia, was at the ECOMOG headquarters attacked by INPFL, taken to the INPFL ’ s Caldwell base, tortured and killed.

At the time of his stroke, his private physician was already being tortured in the basement of the Lubyanka for suggesting the leader required more bed rest.

He was eventually captured by Vichy police and turned over to the Gestapo, which tortured and shot him in June 1944, just as the Nazis realized that the Allies were about to reconquer France ; Bloch became a national martyr after the Allied liberation.

As time would show, Najibullah was very efficient, and during his tenure as leader of KHAD several thousands were arrested, tortured and executed.

However, after four days, in which she was allegedly tortured by English soldiers and possibly raped, she refused again to wear female clothes, which was seen as a sign of her return to heresy.