Gorton said they were preparing to deport her as a vagabond, and to escape the shame she fled to the woods for several days, returning at night.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

`` Seems to me last time I was here the grate bellowed out smoke as it might have been preparing us for hell ''.

When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.

Instructions for preparing clay, drying, glazing and firing are not given.

In 1793 the brothers decided to enter the University of Copenhagen ( founded in 1479 ) and the following spring found them at the university preparing to matriculate for the autumn session.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

If, in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends, you interrupt the sequence to paste in a few frames of the child's grandmother watching this event, you have begun to be an artist in film ; ;

This day was `` Open House for Parents '' day, and the girls were busy preparing exhibits and arranging tea tables.

There are increasing numbers of neighborhoods that are integrated residentially without great loss of property values, the white population having taken the initiative in preparing the areas for an appreciation of the Negroes' desire for well-kept housing, privacy, etc..

Benjamin Lundy ( 1789-1839 ), a Quaker, was a pioneer in preparing the way for anti-slavery societies.

The Parks Department has done an admirable job of preparing the Wollman Rink for Shakespeare.

While preparing for the nuptials and feeling anxiety again, Lincoln, when asked where he was going, replied, " To hell, I suppose.

William Tecumseh Sherman talked to Lincoln during inauguration week and was " sadly disappointed " at his failure to realize that " the country was sleeping on a volcano " and that the South was preparing for war.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

On the other hand, they may not preside over Adoration or Benediction, give a speech that is a homily, or read the Gospel during a Mass or serve as instituted acolytes, a ministry which is now reserved for those preparing for ordained service ).

Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian war and made a first attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for union with the crown.

After reaching orbit, the crew spent time adapting themselves to the zero-gravity environment and preparing the spacecraft for Trans Lunar Injection, the burn of the third stage rocket that would propel them to the Moon.

After further preparing the craft for the trans-lunar voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under fifteen hours after launch.

Stephen sent Aubrey de Vere as his spokesman to the council, who argued that Roger of Salisbury had been arrested not as a bishop, but rather in his role as a baron who had been preparing to change his support to the Empress Matilda.

David Blayney further described, in his book, the role Linden played in the process of planning and preparing Eliminator.

This heightened media environment was important in preparing Estonians for their vanguard role in extending perestroika during the Gorbachev era.

" He did the same in preparing for his role as Henry Drummond, in the stage production of Inherit the Wind.

In 1966, Billy Ritchie became the first keyboard player to take a lead role in a rock band, replacing guitar, and thereby preparing the ground for others such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman.

Early in 2002 Smith ( who was preparing for his first Hollywood role in the Bruce Willis action film Tears of the Sun ) went to China to shoot the US-Chinese martial arts film Warriors of Virtue 2, which would allow him to work with the stuntman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

He also played the role of " decoy " for the press as he was ostensibly preparing Earhart's Vega for his own Arctic flight.

Hepburn met Marie-Louise Habets while preparing for the role, and Habets later helped nurse Hepburn back to health following her near-fatal horse-riding accident on the set of the 1960 film The Unforgiven.

The city was designed from the first as the state ’ s capital, preparing itself for its role in Ohio ’ s political, economic, and social life.

The staff responsible for preparing Late Night consisted of Letterman's girlfriend Merrill Markoe in the head writing role, in addition to seasoned TV veteran Hal Gurnee directing the show, Robert Morton and Barry Sand as executive producers, and a group of young writers – most of them in their early twenties.

At RKO Radio Pictures, Fred Astaire was preparing his first musical feature without Ginger Rogers, and comedian Charley Chase was set to appear in a comic sidekick role.

With Kyle Rayner having rebelled against the Guardians to join the ' New Guardians ' a makeshift team consisting of representatives from all seven Corps, Hal Jordan's recent expulsion, and based on the ' recommendations ' of the now-emotionless Ganthet, the Guardians are preparing to create the ' Third Army ' to replace the Green Lantern Corps, which involves them recovering the mysterious ' First Lantern ' for an undefined role, prompting Sinestro, who learned about this prophecy after touching the Book of the Black, to enlist Hal's aid in stopping this scheme.

When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of Al Jolson, many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James Cagney and Danny Thomas ( both of whom turned it down ), but resident contractee Larry Parks was reportedly the first actor to be interviewed.

In preparing for the role Garfield lived for several weeks with Schmid and his wife in Philadelphia and would blindfold himself for hours at a time.

As a result of Altom's death, the Department of Chemistry accepted a proposal allowing graduate students to ask two additional faculty members to play a small advisory role in preparing a thesis.

DHEA has a role in preparing for and stimulating cervical contractions.

She also agreed to a five-year ban from serving as a director, CEO, CFO, or any other officer role responsible for preparing, auditing, or disclosing financial results of any public company.

With the onset of attacks from Cossacks, White Guards, pogromists, and later the Red Army, the Ukrainian Black Cross took on a unique secondary role preparing city defenses and organizing the first urban army in Ukrainian history.

A subsequent investigation by a committee of the American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ) concluded that Hillsdale had violated the Association's standards in the context of the nonreappointment and found evidence that the administration had made that decision because of Treadgold's role in preparing the letter, even though this activity " should have been protected under generally accepted principles of academic freedom.

Baristas generally operate a commercial espresso machine, and their role is preparing the shot and pulling the shot ; the degree to which this is automated or done manually varies significantly, ranging from push-button operation to an involved manual process.

During the early 1980s while preparing for the feature film Rocky III, Sylvester Stallone explored the possibility of using a real heavyweight boxer in the role of James " Clubber " Lang by inviting Earnie Shavers to spar with him.

The film depicts D ' Onofrio as Welles preparing for his role in The Third Man.

When Anthony Asquith was preparing to produce the 1938 film of Pygmalion, Shaw suggested Campbell for the role of Mrs Higgins but she declined.

Cavour's editorials were produced with the longer view of preparing Sardinia-Piedmont for a leading role in the coming upheavals, which came to the fore in the revolutionary events of 1848-49.

At the time, Shue was preparing for his first big Broadway role, in Joseph Papp's The Mystery of Edwin Drood.