He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Hitching his cartridge belt around, Pat glanced upward briefly at the Palace and started that way with Cobb at his side.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

The plane should have started at the scheduled time and left Sinatra and Martin to guzzle.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

The men in the boats had started yelling happily at first sight of the officer, two of them calling him Billy.

She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.

`` You look like that picture I have at the office '', Mr. Jack had started.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

I started my tour of them at the Turkish Government Tourist Office, next to Pan American's office on the left as you enter the driveway that leads to the Hilton Hotel.

`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

This operation was started at 5:00 p.m. and lasted for 29 minutes.

Discussions of the giants one by one will include, as far as possible, data on these aspects of growth: size at which life is started and at which sexual maturity is reached ; ;

The suds box drain is arranged at the start to deliver into the raised main drain pipe ( thus returning suds to soap box ) and the machine is started.

Drain off the soap solution of the suds cycle at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Column A of Table 2,, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.

Drain off the water at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of water at the end of the sum of the times shown in Columns A and C, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.

It is believed that authority and the grace of God is directly passed down to Orthodox bishops and clergy through the laying on of hands — a practice started by the apostles, and that this unbroken historical and physical link is an essential element of the true church ( Acts 8: 17, 1 Tim 4: 14, Heb 6: 2 ).

On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt, friends Christopher Anderson, Jan Lee and George Illson and his two bodyguards drove down from Melbourne to see the British lone yachtsman Alec Rose sail through Port Phillip Heads in his boat Lively Lady to complete a leg of his solo circumnavigation of the globe, which started and ended in England.

By the time he was 17, Baum established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers ' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.

The 1993 Phillies started the season by going 17 – 5 in April and finishing with a 97 – 65 season.

When civil aircraft started to use the field ( 17 December 1920 ) it was often called Schiphol-les-bains.

However, Griese started the second half of the AFC Championship Game to help rally the Dolphins to a 21 – 17 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, largely due to a fake punt by Dolphin Larry Seiple.

On 17 May 2010, they started appearing in The Sun.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol opened on September 16, 1916 as a military airfield, but only accepted civil aircraft from December 17, 1920, allowing Sydney Airport in Sydney, Australia — which started operations in January 1920 — to claim to be one of the world's oldest continually operating commercial airports.

The artillery preparation started on 17 October, four months late.

Next to the Duomo were the Civic Tower ( existing at least from 1330 and enlarged in 1583 by Pellegrino Tibaldi ): its fall on March 17, 1989, was the final motivating force that started the last decade's efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a similar fate.

On 17 December 2006, The Macau Tower started operating a proper bungee jump, which became the " Highest Commercial Bungee Jump In The World " according to the Guinness Book of Records.

Though the coup of January 22 did not bode well for a genuinely democratic approval process for the new constitution ( and the French would have preferred going the " safe " way of approval by the rump-Assembly ) the plebiscite that started on March 17 ( in the usual form of elections in " primary " assemblies of about 100-500 voters ) had a reasonably democratic quality.

Blackburn started strongly in 2002 – 03, but burned out after 17 games.

After the Duke had started talks with Spain, Henry threatened to reopen the war until, with the Treaty of Lyon ( January 17, 1601 ), Saluzzo went to Savoy in exchange for Bresse and other territories over the Alps.

Weygand arrived on May 17 and started by cancelling the side counter-offensive ordered by Gamelin, to cut off the enemy armoured columns which had punched through the French front at the Ardennes.

The team started out the season by losing its first 17 games, including a blowout 138 – 91, to Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers, at the time an NBA record.

As the 2009 – 10 season they started off 19 – 17.

Calley's trial started on November 17, 1970.

* VELUX 5 Oceans Race – formerly known as the BOC Challenge and later the Around Alone, this race started in 1982 with 17 entries.

First settled in 1757, Lynchburg was named for its founder, John Lynch, who at the age of 17 started a ferry service at a ford across the James River to carry traffic to and from New London.

Air France started A380 flights to Johannesburg on 17 February 2010, initially thrice weekly, now increased to daily.

Eventually, the tour started back up April 17 at the Reno Events Center in Nevada.

Marcus started school in the United States in 1913, quickly accelerating from third to fifth grade, and completed the secondary level with honors at Lincoln High School in Portland, in June 1921 at the age of 17.

Hearns started his career by knocking out his first 17 opponents.