For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;

Whole platoons were taking up new positions on the steps, arriving and departing, while I stayed glued, like a signpost, to one spot.

If I'd stayed, all that I'd have got was four punctured tires and one busted head.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

His innovative methods, however, were controversial, and he rarely stayed in one place very long.

In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged them into one congregation called " Congregatio Sancti Ambrosii ad Nemus ", made the original house the main seat, and laid down a system of government whereby a general chapter met every three years, elected the priors who stayed in office till the next chapter.

Apart from a visit to Jura in the new year he stayed in London for one of the coldest British winters on record and with such a national shortage of fuel that he burnt his furniture and his child's toys.

During the International Polar Year 1882-1883 the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition stayed one year at Jan Mayen.

" There were forty-eight strikes in 1936 in which the strikers remained at their jobs for at least one day ; in twenty-two of these work stoppages, involving 34, 565 workers, the strikers stayed inside the plants for more than twenty-four hours.

Mars was one of the first planets visited, and the crew stayed on the surface for some time, finding water and experiencing a huge dust storm.

As one commentator notes, " Martha, the more aggressive sister, went to meet Jesus, while quiet and contemplative Mary stayed home.

For example, in the Twin paradox one twin brother goes on a trip near the speed of light and comes home younger than his twin, who stayed at home.

Also enigmatic and surreal was one of the most influential records of 1967, " A Whiter Shade of Pale " by Procol Harum, which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June 1967, and stayed there for six weeks.

He stayed for 12 days and described the valley ( initially called Chapel Valley ) where Jamestown is situated as “ a marvellous fair and pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which was a church, which was tiled, and whitened on the outside very fair, and made with a porch, and within the church at the upper end was set an alter ....

was certified 4x platinum and stayed in the Top 100 for one and a half years.

Traders who once only dealt in livestock, now dealt in many handmade goods, and the wool trade always stayed a large part of the trade Reportedly, 20, 000 sheep changed hands at one 19th century fair.

Most succeeding Spaghetti Westerns tried to get a ragged, laconic hero with superhuman weapon skill, preferable one that looked like Clint Eastwood – Franco Nero, John Garko and Terence Hill started out that way ; Anthony Steffen and others stayed that way all their Spaghetti Western career.

Although his mother at first does not believe him, Cole soon tells Lynn that her own mother once went to see her perform in a dance recital one night when she was a child, and that Lynn was not aware of this because her mother stayed in the back of the audience where she could not be seen.

The New York Times stayed with the eight-column format for several years after most papers switched to six columns, and it was one of the last newspapers to adopt color photography.

While towing paths were most convenient when they stayed on one side of a canal, there were occasions where it had to change sides, often because of opposition from landowners.

In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and then one was moved away and brought back, the clock which had undergone the traveling would be found to be lagging behind the clock which had stayed put.

As a result, U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced McVeigh's execution would be stayed for one month.

The Pilots stayed just one season in Seattle before moving and becoming the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970.

`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on.

This continued most of the week following that ill-starred trip to church, during which period Mike stayed in his room and usually in a trance so deep that Jubal would have pronounced him dead had he not seen it before.

He did not get it, but stayed in California and eventually signed a $ 150 a week contract with Columbia Pictures ' New Talent program, playing bit roles in films.

Many local residents have expressed dislike of this tactic, noting that many of these people only stayed in Columbia County on weekends, and are in rent-controlled apartments in New York City during the week.

It was believed that if " the tiger " as well as Foch and Pétain stayed in power, for even another week, France would be lost.

There the temperature stayed below freezing for almost a week with the rivers clogged with ice, so there would be no travel for weeks.

McKuen later wrote, " When news of Jacques ' death came, I stayed locked in my bedroom and drank for a week.

The visitors stayed for about a week and conducted a fresh set of interviews and observed the community at work and play.

The economy of Galena Park began to suffer in the early 1980s, when cranes used to haul ship cargo were reduced ; prior to the early 1980s a team of workers who took up to one week to load cargo off of a ship stayed in the port city and contributed to its local economy, but the new technology lead to ships unloading all cargo in less than one day.

On their return in the fall, they also stayed for a week and traded with white settlers.

The highest chart position was # 1 on the Billboard album chart where it stayed for a week ( removing Stevie Nicks ' Bella Donna from the top spot ), in September 1981.

" En El Amor Hay que Perdonar " debuted at number seven on the Mexican Singles Chart and peaked at number one, and stayed for one week.

Norman, having not played competitive golf regularly in the last several years, stayed in contention all week and wound up three shots behind eventual winner Jay Haas (+ 7 ), tying for sixth place.

The film stayed in the top-ten box office until the seventh week of release, landing at # 12.

Burgess and his crew stayed on one more week until a replacement was found in Jack N. Green.

It stayed at No. 1 on the Hot 100 for one week and the top 200 singles sales chart for 51 weeks.

Family holidays were limited to a week in Blackpool, where they always stayed at the Norbreck Hotel.

After week 3, insect volume dropped and stayed at a lower level throughout all the age classes, fluctuating but always under 25 %.

In Canada, the song debuted at the 83rd position of the RPM singles chart on July 11, 1987, reached the top for one week on August 29, 1987, and stayed on the chart for 23 weeks.

The state bedroom is extremely ornate and has featured such important guests as Kaiser Wilhelm II who stayed with the family for a week in 1907.

From Oxford he went to Birmingham, where he stayed four or five days, then a week in Derby, and on January 9 he arrived in Nottingham.

Zafar used to move his court to a building adjacent to the Shrine of Khwaja Bakhtiyar Kaki and stayed at Mehrauli for a week during the celebrations.

As late as 2010, Reyat admitted only to buying and assembling some parts, but denied he ever made a bomb, knew what the bomb was to be used for, who was behind any plot, or that he ever asked or knew the name of the man who he said stayed in his house for a week completing construction of the explosive device after his device failed.

The next year, the Huskers roared through the regular season, stayed atop the rankings for all but one week, and crushed the Florida Gators 62 – 24 in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl, earning Osborne his second national championship.

) Her grandmother Peggy Wells, along with other friends and relatives, stayed with the children during the week while she was away teaching.