Two more shots followed in quick succession, dropping him limp and huddled on the ground.

At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.

Among the disadvantages: temperament could not be re-set without bending the tangents ; and playing required a further refinement of touch, since notes sharing a single string played in quick succession needed to be slightly separated to avoid a disagreeable deadening of the sound, potentially disturbing a legato line.

A double-barreled shotgun is a shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession.

The Garretts had their first three children in quick succession: Louie, Elizabeth and their brother, Newson Dunnell, who died at the age of six months.

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris ( 1951 ) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

The bulk of Locke's publishing took place upon his return from exilehis aforementioned Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the Two Treatises of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration all appearing in quick succession.

Thereafter, Salim was allowed to marry, in quick succession, a number of accomplished girls from the aristocratic Mughal and Rajput families.

Together, they arranged the murder of their respective siblings, in quick succession, and were thereafter married to each other.

Returning his attention to education, Mao enrolled and dropped out of a series of schools in quick succession ; a police academy, a soap-production school, a law school and an economics school, the latter being the only course which his father approved of.

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute.

To be classed as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood is present at least three ( or four if only irritability is present ) of the following must have been consistently prominent: grand or extravagant style, or expanded self-esteem ; reduced need of sleep ( e. g. three hours may be sufficient ); talks more often and feels the urge to talk longer ; ideas flit through the mind in quick succession, or thoughts race and preoccupy the person ; over indulgence in enjoyable behaviors with high risk of a negative outcome ( e. g., extravagant shopping, sexual adventures or improbable commercial schemes ).

On his subsequent visit to Beta Colony, in quick succession, he obtains a ship, a pilot, and a smuggling mission, running guns to a beleaguered government.

The game features a combo system known as " Linking ", whereby actions such as collecting items and flying through rings are worth more points when performed in quick succession than they are individually.

After Sivadeva III, Mahendra Deva, Mana Deva, Narendra Deva II, Ananda Deva, Rudra Deva, Amrita Deva, Ratna Deva II, Somesvara Deva, Gunakama Deva II, Lakmikama Deva III and Vijayakama Deva II ruled Nepal in quick succession.

In smaller elections, such as those in assemblies or private organisations, it is sometimes possible to conduct both rounds in quick succession.

Between 170 and 180 the activities of Septimius Severus went largely unrecorded, in spite of the fact that he occupied an impressive number of posts in quick succession.

It can fire up to 6 rounds in quick succession which will land nearly simultaneously.

In 1520 the reformer Martin Luther published three works in quick succession: An Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation ( Aug .), Concerning the Babylonish Captivity of the Church ( Oct .), and On the Liberty of a Christian Man ( Nov .).

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

Vitellius was acclaimed emperor following the quick succession of the previous emperors Galba and Otho, in a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

After the emperors Galba and Otho perished in quick succession, Vitellius became Emperor in April AD 69.

They also tended to toward stereotyping: typically, a small group of ethnically diverse men would come together but would not be developed much beyond their ethnicity ; the senior officer would often be unreasonable and unyielding ; almost anyone sharing personal information-especially plans for returning home-would die shortly thereafter and anyone acting in a cowardly or unpatriotic manner would convert to heroism or die ( or both, in quick succession ).

* 1276 – Four different men are pope over the course of the year, as Popes Gregory X, Innocent V, and Adrian V all die in quick succession.

Many tornadoes which appear to have path lengths of or longer are composed of a family of tornadoes which have formed in quick succession ; however, there is no substantial evidence that this occurred in the case of the Tri-State Tornado.

Earlier, Johann Strauss I and Josef Lanner wrote polkas which are either designated as a galop ( quick tempo ) or as a regular polka which may not fall into any of the categories described above.

A later biographer wrote of her " Though Wallis's jaw was too heavy for her to be counted beautiful, her fine violet-blue eyes and petite figure, quick wits, vitality, and capacity for total concentration on her interlocutor ensured that she had many admirers.

As recounted in his 1925 Radio News autobiography, his initial attempts were rebuffed ; in his first application Fessenden wrote, " Do not know anything about electricity, but can learn pretty quick ," to which Edison replied, " Have enough men now who do not know about electricity.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Critic Scott Yanow wrote, " Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh ( and sometimes futuristic ) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries ... Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists.

King wrote that Gurdjieff did not state it as clearly and specifically as this, but was quick to add that nothing Gurdjieff said was specific or clear.

In 2003 Maurice Ashley wrote an essay The End of the Draw Offer ?, which raised discussion about ways to avoid quick agreed draws in chess tournaments.

Charles Burney wrote that Michael's father " tried to make him a singer, but he was naturally idle and not very quick.

" As another wrote, "... his tactical skill had won him the quick admiration of adversaries who had come to know him as the ' Thunderbolt of the Army of the Potomac '.

Some have mistakenly stated that many visual ideas, such as the quick editing, the close-ups of machinery, the store window displays, even the shots of a typewriter keyboard are borrowed from Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City ( 1927 ), which predates Man with a Movie Camera by two years, but as Vertov wrote to the German press in 1929, these techniques and images had been developed and employed by him in his Kino-Pravda newsreels and documentaries for the last ten years, all of which predate Berlin.

After coming back to Japan he wrote a number of articles in quick succession for Japanese journals and magazines.

Fraser, equally quick with weapon, fist or quip, may save the day, but even he can't save the picture ", USA Today wrote.

Motor Trend magazine wrote " Putting the car through quick and / or tight corners isn't a matter of practiced art-it's more like second nature for the GT " in their test of a 1968 Torino GT.

George Parsons wrote that he heard " four shots in quick succession.

" The purpose of this report is to describe the successful use in 2 patients of a quick, simple, effective and safe method of arousing the heart from ventricular standstill by an artificial, external, electric pacemaker ," he wrote.

When the State Department publicly confirmed US support for terrorist attacks on agricultural cooperatives in Nicaragua, Kinsley wrote that we should not be too quick to condemn this official policy.

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

On November 3, 1805, William Clark wrote: " I arrived at the entrance of a river which appeared to Scatter over a Sand bar, the bottom of which I could See quite across and did not appear to be 4 Inches deep in any part ; I attempted to wade this Stream and to my astonishment found the bottom a quick Sand, and impassable ... ".

The New York Times wrote that, " at the start, he zaps us with quick, glib scares, just to show he still knows how, but his heart isn't in this kind of material anymore.

It was reviewed by Michelle Green in People magazine, who wrote: " Sara has a gift for creating quick, accessible fine cuisine.

He did a quick and splendid career in academia, graduated as 19 years old, wrote his dissertation as 22 years old at Finland's university ( in Helsinki ), where he seven years later was appointed professor and head of the department of Latin literature.

A reporter who interviewed Blades on the day after the launch wrote, " A quick search on Yahoo turns up no sites for ' censure Clinton ' but 20 sites for ' impeach Clinton ,'" adding that Scott Lauf's impeachclinton. org website had already delivered 60, 000 petitions to Congress.

Journalist Sarah D. Bunting called Connor " a frustrating character " and wrote that while she " gets where he is coming from " and his ” twitchy, PTSD-ish interactions ring true ", they become old too quick due to lack of real development of character and the relationship with Angel for most of season four.

In a 1999 retrospective of the band's career, Donna Freydkin of CNN. com called Slay Tracks " a quick underground favorite ", while John Hicks of the Planet Weekly wrote " Although Pavement was conceived as a studio-only project, the underground success of Slay Tracks ensured that it was only a matter of time before the group became a full-fledged performing entity.