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

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

Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

In the silence that followed, Miriam walked close to Mrs. Cupply, who drew back a step on her side of the gate.

In a short time the officer returned and Thomas followed on his heels.

Now the riflemen and the Marylanders followed up their beginning and closed in on the British, giving them another telling round of fire.

Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.

Jessica Packard lifted her head and followed the retreating figure, her eyes resting nearly closed on the unself-conscious rise and fall of the rounded hips.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

As mentioned, the primary allocation objective to be followed in the allocation of stations on clear channels is the provision of widespread service, free from destructive interference.

It should be possible to prepare very pure chlorine by oxidation of inorganic chlorides on a vacuum system followed by multiple distillation of the liquid.

These area reports will be followed, according to present plans, by a summary report, which will include a detailed statement on methods.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

It was a three-month journey in the dead of winter followed by three months of labor on Mackinac boats.

One of the most damaging tsunami on record followed the famous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 ; ;

Ruth himself, still owning his farm in Massachusetts and an interest in the Massachusetts cigar business that printed his round boyish face on the wrappers, had led the parade down from Fenway Park, followed by pitchers Carl Mays, Leslie `` Joe '' Bush, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and Sam Jones, catcher Wally Schang, third baseman Joe Dugan ( who completed the `` playboy trio '' of Ruth, Dugan, and Hoyt ), and shortstop Everett Scott.

John C. Houghton, president of the Tareytown Acres Homeowners Association, followed that by announcing plans last night for a door-to-door fund drive throughout their subdivision on behalf of the Kowalski family.

Thus there was really an excess of eighteenth-century charm as one of these light-weight pieces followed another on Saturday night.

I followed it, looking at the brilliant colors on its tubular back, the colors clear and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown diamonds the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the diamonds were set one within the other and interlaced with glistening jet-black.

Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.

It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

The actual number of species in each group depends on the taxonomic classification followed.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

This lasted nearly three centuries, until a rebellion ( which followed closely on the heels of the Mexican War of Independence ) in 1821.

Each issue contained biographical information on many major costumed characters ; these biographies were a precursor to Marvel's series of reference material, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, which followed shortly on the heels of Contest of Champions.

A civil war followed closely on the heels of this.

By the late autumn of 1944, Soviet forces had ushered in a second phase of Soviet rule on the heels of the German troops withdrawing from Estonia, and followed it up by a new wave of arrests and executions of people considered disloyal to the Soviets.

These followed hard on the heels of earlier Ordinances passed in 1539 and 1559, in which the competitive examination system for the appointment of professors had been introduced.

The settlement of Culbertson followed hard on the heels of the 1886-87 watershed years for the early cattle industry.

Soong's visit to mainland China followed quickly on the heels of the trail-blazing visit of KMT Chairman Lien Chan.

The battle followed on the heels of reverses suffered by the French in both 1812, which had gutted the strength of the French, and 1813, where they fought against the Sixth Coalition.

Subsequent to this insurrection, and to the September Massacres that followed closely on its heels, the Cordeliers Club became increasingly the province of ultra-revolutionary factions, particularly the Hébertists, who advocated extreme measures to intensify the Terror.

According to Willy Ley: " The first reaction in professional circles was, naturally, surprise, and hard on the heels of the surprise there followed an apologetic attitude, the apologies being directed at a long-dead great astronomer, Sir William Herschel.

Opportunities and threats followed on each other ’ s heels during the nineteenth century.

The C64 followed close on the heels of the VIC-20, quickly discontinuing the 1540.

The marriage of slapstick humor with moralizing social commentary, established in El Periquillo, remained a constant in the Mexican novels that followed on its heels throughout the nineteenth century ( Antonio Benitez-Rojo, " José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and the Emergence of the Spanish American Novel as National Project ," Modern Language Quarterly 57 ( 2 ): pp. 334 – 35 ).

Alexander followed close behind their heels and captured the strategic hill-fort after the fourth day of a bloody fight.

Hammered together during war time, the emergence of the Muromachi regime followed on the heels of the Restoration's failure.

Brahms ' biographers often note that the first sketches for the dramatic opening movement followed quickly on the heels of the 1854 suicide attempt of the composer's dear friend and mentor, Robert Schumann, an event which caused great anguish for Brahms.

Therefore, they would raise their feet high with the toes flopping downward, which would touch the pavement first followed by their heels.

Betty Ford's decision to undertake such a project followed on the heels of her own battle with alcohol dependence and opioid analgesic addiction, and after her release from the Long Beach Naval Hospital, she pursued the goal of creating a treatment center that emphasized the needs of women.

I Spy was a main fixture in the wildly popular secret agent genre of the 1960s — a trend that followed hot on the heels of the hugely successful James Bond films.

The Great Depression followed hard on its heels.

Each turn the guard makes is precise and is instantly followed by a loud click of the heels as he snaps them together.

Its round headlights and cute appearance were very much a product of its time and followed upon the heels of similar designs such as Nissan's Be-1 and Pao.

Hot Summer was a Cantopop album by Leslie Cheung released in 1988 by Hong Kong record company Cinepoly and followed on the heels of the success of Cheung's Summer Romance the year before.