Although they drew light ground fire they saw no signs of activity.

They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.

So as the years passed, I saw them each time in the light of an accelerated personal conflagration.

She started back for the house, saw a light in the office, opened the door and surprised a domestic little scene which was far outside the dark realm of murder or attempted murder.

now he felt light and gay and clear-headed, ready for the many actions he saw spreading out before him.

* We saw a light ashore-The Diary Junction Blog

" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.

Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of the spreading of the Christian religion.

And thus, the world saw light again.

The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of " Space Oddity ", with light fare such as " Kooks ", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.

The massive development programme managed by the LDDC during the 1980s and 1990s saw a huge area of the Docklands converted into a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial space.

The Irish Unionists, led by Sir Edward Carson, opposed home rule in the light of what they saw as an impending Roman Catholic-dominated Dublin government.

" Only when the driver told Clemens to look up and he saw the light towers did he realize he was in the right place.

Due to the sporadic publishing and support of Gamma World during the TSR years, several proposed products never saw the light of day.

The big European powers saw the war of Greek independence, with its accounts of Turkish atrocities, in a romantic light ( see, for example, the 1824 painting Massacre of Chios by Eugène Delacroix ).

Hildegard explained that she saw all things in the light of God through the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.

It first saw the light of day on New Year's Eve 1759 sung by Samuel Thomas Champnes, grandson of John Weldon, in one of the first pantomimes, " Harlequin's Invasion ", at the Garrick Theatre.

Thus, Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc saw the pagan religions of Africa of his day as relicts that were in principle capable of shedding light on the historical Paganism of Classical Antiquity.

At the time the two of us were in Heliopolis and we both witnessed the extraordinary phenomenon of the moon hiding the sun at the time that was out of season for their coming together ... We saw the moon begin to hide the sun from the east, travel across to the other side of the sun, and return on its path so that the hiding and the restoration of the light did not take place in the same direction but rather in diametrically opposite directions ..."

It also saw the growth of Fundamentalist Christianity ( a movement of those who believed in the literal interpretation of the Bible as the fundamental source of the religion ) as distinguished from Modernist Christianity ( a movement holding the belief that Christianity needed to be re-interpreted in light of modern scientific theories such as evolution or the rise of degraded social conditions brought on by industrialization and urbanization ).

While conceding that he saw no artistic merit in some violent video games, King also opined that such games reflect the violence that already exists in society, which would not be lessened by such a law, and would be redundant in light of the ratings system that already exists for video games.

Dorothy Parker's bittersweet story Big Blonde saw the light in 1929.

Originally developed as an aircraft weapon, it also saw some use by infantry as a light machine gun.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

Early that day Matsuo saw a marine.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

So it was that when Mr. Brown and Mr. Sharpe first saw the French tool on exhibition in Paris in 1868, they brought a sample with them to the United States and started Brown & Sharpe in yet another field where it retains its leadership to this day.

`` It was only the other day that I saw something of yours, about something or other, in some magazine ''.

A disturbing picture of bad blood, to be further heightened with illicit if buccolic colors, for on a subsequent day I saw Handley escorting Anta, Red's wife, up on Dogtown Common.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

" Avedon interrupted his production commitments to take Chaplin's portrait the next day, and never saw him again.

The FP saw combat in Cameroun, and successfully invaded and conquered areas of German East Africa, notably present day Rwanda, during World War I.

Most deists saw the religions of their day as corruptions of an original, pure religion that was simple and rational.

The present day Ecuadorian Air Force ( Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana ) saw combat-action several times in 1981 and 1995 when it gained valuable experiences against the Peruvian Air Force.

Walking into the lab one day, Smyth saw the distinguished scientist helping a graduate student move a table, under another student's directions.

It is said that one day, he saw a wild boar and proclaimed, " I want to kill Soga Umako like this wild boar.

Mrs. Auld one day saw Douglass reading a newspaper ; she ran over to him and snatched it from him, with a face that said education and slavery were incompatible with each other.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

Too busy with the many threats that the X-Men faced every day, Bobby let his relationship with Opal deteriorate and, when they finally saw each other again after weeks, it was only to save her from an attack by mutant haters.

Vasari relates that if Leonardo saw a person with an interesting face he would follow them around all day observing them.

In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites.

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before.