It was nice then, so peaceful and quiet.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

The finished -- and drastically cut -- product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting above the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather, and I had a hunch this item was going to sell tons and tons of soap ; ;

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Then the darkness thinned, and there was light again, and then bright sunlight.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

It was only then that he turned to look at Penny.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

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.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

In the hut to which I was assigned -- Max had his own quarters -- my food was brought to me by a wrinkled crone with bare drooping breasts who seemed to enjoy conversing with me in rudimentary phrases.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

If Af was assigned as the information cell for Af, the routine can detect that Af is identical to Af by comparing Af with the form stored at location Af.

There were several missions which demanded instant attention but Helva had been of interest to several department heads in Central for some time and each man was determined to have her assigned to his section.

With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII was published as ASA X3. 4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code.

However, prior to 1915, the word Zahl ( simply number ) was used for an element's assigned number in the periodic table.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

" Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.

He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on February 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty in northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac conducted the Peninsula Campaign.

Doubleday again led the division, now assigned to the I Corps of the Army of the Potomac, after South Mountain, where Hatch was wounded again.

The highest place was assigned to him, both in church and at table.

The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the Greeks, and when the temple of Delphi was burnt, he contributed 1, 000 talents to the rebuilding.

Carrier Af was added and the aqueous and organic phases were separated ( cells containing gaseous reactants were immersed in liquid air before opening under sodium iodide ).

For example, Jean-Baptiste Carrier became notorious for the Noyades (" drownings ") he organized in Nantes ; his conduct was judged unacceptable even by the Jacobin government and he was recalled.

It was produced in a 68-pin package including PLCC ( Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier ), LCC ( Leadless chip carrier ) and PGA ( Pin Grid Array ) packages.

The Carrier Corps was formed and ultimately mobilised over 400, 000 Africans, contributing to their long-term politicisation.

On April 17, 2012, Discovery was transported by Shuttle Carrier Aircraft to Dulles from Kennedy Space Center, where it made several passes over the Washington D. C. metro area.

In preparation for the anticipated relocation, engineers evaluated the vehicle in early 2010 and determined that it was safe to fly on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft once again.

The British Gun Carrier Mark I was the first example of a self-propelled gun, fielded in 1917 during World War I.

And where FR was used in the USA also as carrier for TCP / IP traffic in Europe backbones for IP networks often used ATM or PoS, later replaced by Carrier Ethernet

Carrier squelch was invented first and is still in wide use in two-way / three-way radio, especially in the amateur radio world.

The National Water Carrier Project was begun in 1956 and completed in 1964 ; it combined all previous water projects and delivered water to the dry Mitzpe Ramon in the south.

The Interior of British Columbia was home to the Salishan language groups such as the Shuswap ( Secwepemc ) and Okanagan and southern Athabaskan language groups, primarily the Dakelh ( Carrier ) and the Tsilhqot ' in.

Pig iron was used as ballast on the NASA Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

It was followed by the Airline Deregulation Act ( 1978 ), Staggers Rail Act ( 1980 ), and the Motor Carrier Act of 1980.

From 1999 to 2004, Carrier was National Librarian of Canada.

* Admiration for Richard and the Montreal Canadiens was the main plot point of the popular heritage story " The Hockey Sweater ", originally published in 1979 by native Quebecker and acclaimed author Roch Carrier., as well as its 1980 National Film Board of Canada ( NFB ) adaptation, The Sweater.

In 1997, following British Airways ' announcement that it was to remove the Union Flag from its tailfins in favour of world images, Virgin introduced a Union Flag design on the winglets of its aircraft and changed the red dress on the Scarlet Lady on the nose of aircraft to the union flag with the tag line " Britain's Flag Carrier ".

Hogarth was initiated as a Freemason some time before 1728 in the Lodge at the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern, Little Queen Street, and later belonged to the Carrier Stone Lodge and the Grand Stewards ' Lodge ; the latter still possesses the ' Hogarth Jewel ' which Hogarth designed for the Lodge's Master to wear.

After a 13 day absence, his lawyer revealed that Levy was in Carrier Clinic, a rehabilitation hospital.

In 1960, the 452d Troop Carrier Wing was activated at March.

The Mate-Demate Facility, to load and unload the Orbiter from the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ), was changed from the large structure found at Dryden Flight Research Center and Kennedy Space Center, to a transportable " erector set-like " Orbiter Lifting Frame ( OLF ).

The first Enterpris OV flight, attached to a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA – an extensively modified Boeing 747 ), was in February 1977 ; this as followed by a free landings in August and October.

The Carrier ( 1988 ) was filmed in Manchester, as was Flipped ( 2010 ).

It gained brief fame as the last place in the continental United States to use a trunking system ( inter-office circuits ) that was called " N2 Carrier ", an analog system that utilized Multi-Frequency ( MF ) tones and the infamous 2600 Hz control tone for answer supervision and idle trunk condition.