Bowra's colleagues made haste to cover their private parts ; Bowra merely covered his head.

" Major-General Murray ," recalled one eye witness, " … seeing him fall, marched up in all haste with two Swiss battalions to save him and stop the enemy who were hewing all down in their way.

Due to their rocky nature and long lives, obsidimen are rather slow moving and deliberate in both speech and action, and can have difficulty understanding the smaller races ' need for haste.

" Upon ordering his army to join the battle and rescue their fellow Romans, Fabius exclaimed " We must make haste to rescue Minucius, who is a valiant man, and a lover of his country.

The biblical narrative relates that the Israelites left Egypt in such haste they could not wait for their bread dough to rise ; the bread, when baked, was matzah.

Service members, themselves, could complicate the issue by leaving hospitals unofficially, returning to their units in haste to rejoin a battle or to not appear as a malingerer.

Lady Anne Clifford recorded that she and her mother killed three horses in their haste to see the Queen, and that when James met Anne near Windsor, " there was such an infinite number of lords and ladies and so great a Court as I think I shall never see the like again.

The haste with which the Danes resumed their attack on Norse Dublin before consolidating their control of Saxon England indicates that the entire Danish invasion was not primarily aimed at the conquest of Saxon England, but to secure a North Sea base of operations to use as a springboard in the conflict with the Norwegians, who controlled an extensive trade network in the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, and Ireland, which exported goods as the Danes did, from the British Isles south-east through Kievan Rus as far as Constantinople and Baghdad, following the Dniepr from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

Nazi Germany succeeded in getting the Baltic Germans to abandon their homes and homeland in haste, disposing of their belongings at cut-rate prices.

Now hoping that his adversaries had left Mantinea defenseless in their haste to protect Sparta, Epaminondas counter marched his troops back to his base at Tegea, and then dispatched his cavalry to Mantinea.

It has been suggested that the keep's shallow foundations and thin walls, at their thickest and on average, demonstrate that it was built in haste.

The German land forces could have easily destroyed the British Expeditionary Force, especially when many of the British troops, in their haste to withdraw, had left behind their heavy equipment.

General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding officer of the Union cavalry advance, forced Confederate forces under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III and Joseph Wheeler to withdraw in haste who were frantically trying to transport their remaining supplies and wounded by rail westward toward the final Confederate encampment in Greensboro, NC.

Poet, composer, musical copyist and singer did their work together in frantic haste.

With the Russian invasion of Manchukuo and Mengjiang in August 1945, the unit had to abandon their work in haste.

It has been noted that -- contrary to popular belief -- the fourteenth fugue was finished, but Johann Sebastian Bach's works ' inheritors lost the last page in their haste to publish it.

In their haste to depart, the men cut lines necessary for towing the ship, and alarm was eventually raised in the port.

In their haste to escape the British, three men were left behind ; one was captured, but the other two eventually returned south by land.

Dorsey, an American, was known for his haste and he had to advise James Deans who had been a guide in the area that he should just keep quiet as the local missionary John Henry Keen lambasted Deans and his unidentified, but American, collaborators for desecrating the graves of the local natives in their hunt for Northwest Coast artifacts.

In order to haste the evacuation of civilians from their belongings, US forces and Filipino guerrillas were forced to burn the barracks before Japanese reinforcements would arrive to the area.

Response bias occurs when respondents do not indicate their true beliefs, such as in bias due to intentional manipulation by respondents, haste, social pressure, or confusion ; such biases may be present in any polling situation.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

More of an agricultural nation, they have relied on their warriors only for defense and for survival in the endless wars of the plains.

At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

This time he delayed so long that some of the engages shouted frantically, but they held their fire.

Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

The others put on old coats or ducking jackets, whichever they carried behind their saddle cantles.

Nor could they stop and find out about all that had happened until they made circle, tended the cattle, tethered the horses, gathered fuel, carried water, and started their cooking fires.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

`` Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some bar if he's here at all '', Cobb declared, glancing along the street as they stretched their legs.

Neither spoke till they reached their horses.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

They had never seen a tultul but they had heard about it from their fathers ''.

they destroy such men with their damned tests.