Then, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their true guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch up on the news.

It did not take me long to slip the bolt securely and return to the rear and its couch.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

A storm did take place that night, and fortunately enough, it included a cloudburst that helped put out the flames.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Lewis looked at him and began to cry, and then, saying that he was going to make a promise, he asked Blackman to call the porter and to tell him to take out all the liquor that he did not want.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

Usually she marked the few who did thank you, you didn't get that kind much in a place like this: and she played a little game with herself, seeing how downright rude she could act to the others, before they'd take offense, threaten to call the manager.

Wexler admitted in earlier court hearings that he issued grand jury subpenas to about 200 persons involved in the election investigation, questioned the individuals in the Criminal courts building, but did not take them before the grand jury.

These inwardly dramatic moments showed the kind of `` opera style '' of which Beethoven was genuinely capable, but which did not take so kindly to the mechanics of staging.

To be sure, Lanza made numerous concert tours, here and abroad, but these did not take him to New York where the carping critic might lurk.

I did book jackets and covers for paperback reprints: naked girls huddling in corners of dingy furnished rooms while at the doorway, daring the cops to take him, is the guy in shirt sleeves clutching a revolver.

He did it because he knows for each guy he puts out of commission that's one less who might take his job away later on.

General Hershey's draft and Doc Eddyman and Cap were responsible for his first eminence, but Fearless Freddy Bryan could take credit, if he cared to ( and he did ), for the second time.

In Attic, the shift did not take place after epsilon, iota, and rho ( ε, ι, ρ ; e, i, r ).

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Following the Protestant Reformation from 1517, it did not take long for Arian and other non-trinitarian views to resurface.

However, he did take a great interest in the revision and practice of the law throughout the empire.

This transition did not, however, take place without protest.

For various reasons, however, poverty and personal inclination among others, he did not take a prominent part in the military operations of this period.

Johnson's mood did not change ; he continued to criticize the Congress for refusing to allow the Southern states to take their seats.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.

It was not merely that flies were crawling over his face but his narrowed eyelids did not blink when the flies crawled into his eye sockets.

The innocent malfeasant, filled with that supreme sense of honor found in bars, insisted upon replacing the destroyed monacle -- and did, over the protests of the former owner -- with a square monacle.

( Downbeat did not mention the Los Angeles appearance of Patchen and the Sextet, although the engagement lasted over two months.

He did not spill over with hatred for the enemy.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Although a look of alarm passed over his face, he did not arrest his movements but disappeared into the shower room just as the chambermaid emerged from number nine.

The Newport Mercury exhibited more concern over the possibility of the abolitionists making a martyr of Brown than it did over the development of sympathy for him.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

The middle-aged man said over and over, `` Why did I come here, why did I come here ''.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

Farmers are so eager for new machinery that they're haggling less over prices than they did a year ago, dealers report.

they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

One study examined the physical health of mothers who volunteered over a 30-year period and found that 52 % of those who did not belong to a volunteer organization experienced a major illness while only 36 % of those who did volunteer experienced one.