In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.

In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.

The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

The things left unsaid they both felt deeply, and with a sigh they fell back on the well-stuffed pillows.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

As he pushed open the door he fell on his face, one of his comrades pulling him inside.

After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice, snow fell on October 15, 1825, and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick.

It was falling over her head when a branch of a bush caught it and it fell in front of her on the rock.

Ducking, Mickey tripped and fell to one side, landing heavily on the wood floor.

He fell on his side across the lowest step, rolled over once, then lay still.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

I have calculated that if I could snap my fingers in one magic gesture to release the power of all the hydrogen in my body, I would explode with the force of a hundred bombs of the kind that fell on Hiroshima.

Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette.

He beat the air with his stick, and it fell from his claws and clattered on the stones.

The nice-looking young officer fell back on his heels, open-mouthed and blushing.

He fell into the habit of putting his clothes in drawers and closets, so his life might impinge as little as possible on hers.

Johnston knew he could be trapped at Bowling Green if Fort Donelson fell, so he moved his force to Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and an increasingly important Confederate industrial center, beginning on February 11, 1862.

Lynchehaun had been employed by McDonnell as her land agent, but the two fell out and he was sacked and told to quit his accommodation on her estate.

Trier was taken on 26 October and Landau fell on 23 November to the Margrave of Baden and Prince Eugene ; with the fall of Trarbach on 20 December, the campaign season for 1704 came to an end.

When Hooper fell into financial difficulties, the Britannica was managed by Sears Roebuck for 18 years ( 1920 – 23, 1928 – 43 ).

The Jags fell at home to the Titans 33 – 14 in a game that the Jaguars led 14 – 10 at halftime, before allowing 23 unanswered points in the 2nd half.

The Royals began the 2010 season with a rocky start, and after the team's record fell to 12 – 23, manager Trey Hillman was fired.

Poznań fell to the Red Army ( assisted by Polish volunteers ) on 23 February 1945 following the Battle of Poznań, in which the German army conducted a last-ditch defence in line with Hitler's designation of the city as a Festung.

The last restoration was carried out in 1963 after stone 23 of the Sarsen Circle fell over.

However, the Bible is clear in 1 Kings 11: 5, 33, and 2 Kings 23: 13 that the Israelites fell into Asherah worship later on.

The number of Jews remaining in Breslau fell from 23, 240 in 1925 to 10, 659 in 1933.

On 23 January 1887, under the heading " Their First Flat Failure ; The First Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Not a Success ", The New York Times reported, " When the curtain finally fell there was hissing – the first ever heard in the Savoy Theatre.

The PvdA lost the 2002 elections, and the party's parliamentary representation fell from 45 seats to 23.

The French countermined, fired the pit props and fell back to the Tourelles on October 23.

Across the two days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 23 %.

In September 2012, the Iranian currency fell to a record low of 23, 900 rials to the US dollar.

On August 5, the NASDAQ fell below its July 23 low.

The group performed and sang a medley consisting of " What the World Needs Now Is Love " and The Beatles ' " All You Need Is Love " on 23 February 1969 and performed and sang " Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In " on 18 May 1969, the day after the medley fell from the Hot 100 summit.

The album remained No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Album Chart for 14 consecutive weeks ; Memphis Blues fell to No. 2 on October 16, 2010 and then to No. 3 on October 23, 2010.

On January 23, 1877, an LL chondrite meteorite fell in Cynthiana.

From January 23, 1916 to January 24, 1916, the temperature fell 100 ° F ( 56 ° C ) from 44 ° F ( 7 ° C ) to-56 ° F (- 49 ° C ).

On July 23, 2010, a hailstone measuring 8 inches in diameter, 18. 62 inches in circumference, and 1. 93 pounds in weight, fell during a severe storm that impacted the town.

Immediately afterward, Dow's share price fell 4. 2 % in 23 minutes, for a loss of in market value.

In February 1846 Public Ledger reported that the bell had been rung on February 23, 1846 in celebration of Washington's Birthday ( as February 22 fell on a Sunday, the celebration occurred the next day ), and also reported that the bell had long been cracked, but had been " put in order " by having the sides of the crack filed.

On March 23, 2011, the air traffic control supervisor on duty reportedly fell asleep during the night shift.

During an earthquake on August 23, 2011 three of the four top spires fell off the cathedral.