One night, Mama came home practically in a state of shock.

Pete came to meet us when we stepped out of the elevator on Seven -- he'd had a case of post-operative shock, but it was all taken care of now.

Newspapers of the period reported that the announcement of the new party came as a complete shock to MPs from all sides of the Commons, including members of the Manifesto Group, as the ' Gang of Four ' had kept their preparations a closely guarded secret.

The Arab Chronicles, the history of that age, show that Arab awareness of the Franks as a growing military power came only after the Battle of Tours when the Caliph expressed shock at his army's catastrophic defeat.

This " Luxembourg Crisis " came as a shock to French diplomats as there previously was an agreement between the Prussian and French governments about Luxembourg.

It came as a shock to many when the Conservatives won a majority, but the perceived triumphalism of a Labour party rally in Sheffield ( together with Kinnock's performance on the podium ) may have helped

She had been ailing for about ten years, but her death came as a great shock to him.

I was not aware such a statement was being issued and it came as a total shock to me, as I ’ m sure it did to all of you.

Rabin's assassination came as a great shock to the Israeli public and much of the rest of the world.

The prison term, though short, came as a severe shock to Novello, both mentally and physically, and had serious lasting effects.

Another shock came in the form of the Sharon Tate and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders committed in August 1969 by Charles Manson and his " family " of followers.

Investigations uncovered no record of her birth at Caernarfon, news which came as a shock to the town that had long claimed her as one of its most famous natives.

The sentence came as a shock to Slovik, who had expected a dishonorable discharge and a jail term ( the latter of which he assumed would be commuted once the war was over ), the same punishment he had seen meted out to other deserters from the division while he was confined to the stockade.

The 1984 European elections in June came as a shock, as the FN won 11 % of the vote and ten seats.

Søvnen ( The Sleep ), Nielsen's second major choral work, sets to music the various phases of sleep including the terror of a nightmare in its central movement which, with is unusual discords, came as an unwlecome shock to the reviewers at its premiere in March 1905.

< p > The said Patrick Crowley now lying dead ... in said village of LaGrange ... came to his death ... from shock and hemorrhage due to a bullet wound in the right breast, said bullet fired from a revolver held in the hand of one Harry Lenzi, on the road at Gary, Ill. on June 13, 1909.

Naturally, all of this came as a shock to the existing residents who moved here to enjoy the natural tranquil countryside.

In 1933, Dr Albert Hyman, heart specialist at the Beth Davis Hospital of New York city and C. Henry Hyman, an electrical engineer, looking for an alternative to injecting powerful drugs directly into the heart, came up with an invention that used an electrical shock in place of drug injection.

Their win for Album of the Year came as a shock as they defeated Eminem and his highly controversial album The Marshall Mathers LP.

This came as a shock to the Finnish people who held Ryti in high esteem.

Partly because its regional progamming was so well regarded it came as a great shock when TWW lost its franchise in the 1967 franchise review, in favour of the Harlech Consortium, whose bid promised a glittering future of star-filled entertainment and quality documentaries.

" He also said that it came as a shock to him that his brother-in-law was being deported.

" Jacques ' conviction that the party was finished " came as a nasty shock to some of his comrades " like Nina Temple, who " as unhappy as Jacques himself, stayed on only out of loyalty to Jacques.

Portillo's loss of the Enfield Southgate seat in the 1997 general election to Stephen Twigg came as a shock to many politicians and commentators, and came to symbolise the extent of the Conservatives ' defeat.

Susan and Julia came from the door and dragged him with them.

Many of them, in increasing panic, came running with water in their hats in a ludicrous effort.

It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

`` Everyone knew it, but he sort of acted like he didn't care who knew it -- even after them notes came, even after he'd heard about Lewis, even after he'd been shot at a couple o' times hisself ''!!

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.

The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.

This lofty disregard for others was not shared by such men as Pierre Flotte and his associates, that `` brilliant group of mediocre men '', as Powicke calls them, who provided the brains for the French embassy that came to Rome under the nominal leadership of the archbishop of Narbonne, the duke of Burgundy, and the count of St.-Pol.

A report of Sr. Edw Grevyles minaces to the Baileefe Aldermen & Burgesses of Stratforde '' tells how Quiney was injured by Greville's men: `` in the tyme Mr. Ryc' Quyney was bayleefe ther came some of them whoe beinge druncke fell to braweling in ther hosts howse wher thei druncke & drewe ther dagers uppon the hoste: att a faier tyme the Baileefe being late abroade to see the towne in order & comminge by in hurley burley came into the howse & commawnded the peace to be kept butt colde nott prevayle & in hys endevor to sticle the brawle had his heade grevouselye brooken by one of hys ( Greville's ) men whom nether hymselfe ( Greville ) punnished nor wolde suffer to be punnished but with a shewe to turne them awaye & enterteyned agayne ''.

Rank after rank of them came down the road, and the faces were all the same, and they walked in a sea of dust.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

The peddler came bawling his wares and told them of the convention in Wheeling, Which had formed a new state government by declaring the government at Richmond in the east illegal because they were traitors.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Arlene was boosting them up when the policeman came by.

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

His trading goods came from Canada to the Forks of Red River and from Selkirk's settlement he brought them south in carts.

Jones came toward them fast, now, along the southern toe of the Reef, and the dogs could be heard plainly, Old John with his Grand Canyon voice outstanding above the others.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.